A new play, “The Shark is Broken,” takes a look behind the scenes at the making of the iconic film “Jaws.”
The play is the brainchild of actor Ian Shaw, the son of legendary actor Robert Shaw, who made the role of Quint an iconic one.
The play explores how some of the most exciting scenes in the film came about. Ian Shaw plays his father, whom he has an uncanny resemblance to, while Murray Scott and Demetri Goritsas take up the roles of Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider.
The play runs a full 90 minutes and delves into what happened behind the scenes during filming. This Includes how the film spent most of the budget on an animatronic shark, “Bruce,” who would not work, and how the crew eventually realized that the scariest shark was the one in the audience’s mind.
“The Shark is Broken” runs at the Ambassadors Theatre in London’s west end through February 13th, 2022.
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