A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney - by Lucas Hnath (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 112
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: American
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Overlook Press
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: General
Author: Lucas Hnath
Language: English

About the Book

"Enjoyably weird . . . nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was this animated." -- Time Out NY

Book Synopsis

Lucas Hnath's darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney centers on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylized screenplay written by the great man himself, in the ultimate act of self-mythologizing. It's being read by the people it's about--Walt himself, his brother/henchman Roy, and Walt's resentful daughter and her ex-jock husband.It's about Walt's last days on earth. It's about a city he's going to build that's going to change the world. And it's about his brother. It's about everyone who loves him, and how sad they're going to be when he's gone. Can Walt control the future from the grave? Why does his daughter hate him so much? Were thousands of lemmings harmed in the making of a famous Disney nature film? Stay tuned . . .

Review Quotes

. . . superb . . . A Public Reading is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh.--Charles Isherwood

Enjoyably weird . . . nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was this animated.

. . . superb . . . "A Public Reading" is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh. Charles Isherwood, The" New York Times"
Enjoyably weird . . . nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom "was this animated. "Time Out NY"""

" . . . superb . . . "A Public Reading" is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh." --Charles Isherwood, The" New York Times"
"Enjoyably weird . . . nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom "was this animated." -- "Time Out NY""

About the Author

Lucas Hnath is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and his plays have been produced or developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Culture Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Raddlestick Playwrights Theatre, among others. His play A Doll's House, Part 2 premiered on Broadway in 2017 and received eight Tony nominations including "Best Play" and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for "Outstanding New Broadway Play."