The Shark Is Broken at The Lowry

 CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF

THE ICONIC BLOCKBUSTER JAWS

WEST END AND BROADWAY SMASH HIT PLAY THE SHARK IS BROKEN

IS SET TO MAKE WAVES ON A UK & IRELAND TOUR FROM JANUARY 2025

 

 

STARRING IAN SHAW AS HIS FATHER ROBERT SHAW

 

 

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Image: Original West End Cast. Photography by Helen Maybanks

DEMETRI GORITSAS (ROY SCHEIDER), IAN SHAW (ROBERT SHAW) and LIAM MURRAY SCOTT (RICHARD DREYFUSS).

 

 

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1975 iconic blockbuster Jaws, producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, GFour Productions and Kenny Wax are delighted to announce the critically acclaimed Olivier award-nominated West End and Broadway production, The Shark Is Broken, will embark on a UK and Ireland tour next year.

 

Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing ‘Quint’ in Jaws, The Shark Is Broken is the brilliantly funny play which celebrates movie history as it peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster and imagines what happened on board ‘The Orca’ when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Steven Spielberg’s epic movie.


Starring Ian Shaw (Warhorse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, the UK and Ireland tour will open at Oxford Playhouse on Thursday 23 January and will tour to a further 14 venues including The Lowry, Salford from Tue 4 – Sat 8 February 2025.

 

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.

 

LISTINGS:

Title: The Shark Is Broken

Venue: The Lowry, Pier, 8 The Quays, Salford, Manchester M50 3AZ

Web: thelowry.com

Dates: Tue 4 – Sat 8 February 2025.

Web: thelowry.com

Tour Website: TheSharkIsBroken.com

Socials: @SharkonBroadway

Running Time: 90 minutes no interval

Age guide: 14+

 

Notes to Editors:

 

Ian Shaw - Co-writer, Robert Shaw

Ian Shaw trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, having obtained a BA in American Studies at Sussex University. Theatre includes War Horse and Common (National Theatre); Widowers’ Houses, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nude with Violin, The Philadelphia Story, and The Brothers Karamazov (Manchester Royal Exchange); Three Sisters (Nuffield and Theatre Royal Bath); Private Lives and Closer (Birmingham Rep); The Rivals (Derby Playhouse and Philadelphia Walnut St); The Tempest (SRT) and Much Ado About Nothing in London’s West End. Television includes Sharpe, Soldier, Soldier, Medics, Wuthering Heights, The Queen, Ghost Hour, Silent Witness,  Cambridge Spies and the Emmy award-winning Hiroshima. Film includes Century, Moondance, The Boys and Girl from County Clare, The Contract and Johnny English Reborn.

 

Joseph Nixon – Co-writer

Joseph Nixon is the author (with Brian Mitchell) of the plays Those Magnificent Men (New Perspectives, 2010); Big Daddy vs. Giant Haystacks (The Foundry Group, 2011); Seven Studies in Salesmanship (The Foundry Group, 2013); and the musical The Opinion Makers (Mercury Theatre/Derby Theatre 2013.) He has written material for Joanna Neary, Jo Caulfield, Jerry Sadowitz, and Basil Brush.

 

 

Visit us: In person: The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ. Online: thelowry.co

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