Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, GFour Productions and Kenny Wax present THE SHARK IS BROKEN
TUESDAY 29 APRIL – SATURDAY 3 MAY 2025 - 7.45pm, 2.30pm Wed, Sat mats (THEATRE)
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets and information 01202 280000
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic 1975 blockbuster movie Jaws, the critically acclaimed Olivier Award-nominated West End and Broadway production, The Shark Is Broken, will tour the UK and Ireland next year, including a week-long run at Lighthouse Poole from Tuesday 29 April until Saturday 3 May.
Starring Ian Shaw (Warhorse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, and co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, The Shark Is Broken is inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing Quint in Jaws. It’s a brilliantly funny play which celebrates movie history as it peeks at the choppy waters behind the Hollywood blockbuster and imagines what happened on board The Orca when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Steven Spielberg’s epic movie.
Casting for the roles of Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss are to be announced.
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed… again. The lead actors - theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider - are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic… if it doesn’t sink them all.
Following its critical and sell-out success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, The Shark Is Broken transferred to the West End in 2021 playing at the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited season where it enjoyed an extended run due to huge popular demand and an Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy Play. In July 2023 the production transferred to Broadway for a 16-week run at the John Golden Theatre where it garnered fresh critical acclaim.