The 2013 comedy about the last days of Disney digs into the darker recesses of the mouse-man’s mind
Katherine Cullen and Diego Matamoros in a scene from A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney.It’s easy to forget these days that Walt Disney was once the name of an actual human being, not just a massive multibillion-dollar entertainment company with a theme park duking it out with Ron DeSantis in Florida and a streaming service all parents except Chrystia Freeland know is an essential service.
In his 2013 comedy about the last days of Disney, Lucas Hnath, the hot contemporary American playwright also behind just-closed Toronto critical hitA Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney “I’m Walt Disney,” Walt says at the start, holding up a stack of pages. “This is a screenplay I wrote. It’s about me.”
Walt, also, seems to be adding in stage directions in real time to speed past unpleasant scenes in his life. Sometimes he barks “cut to” in anger or mutters it in frustration and, when a hospital scene arrives, he presses a button that plays a recording of “cut to” to move the action forward as quickly as possible.
That makes him a great match for the immersive theatre company Outside the March. The company makes theatregoing an event by treating every performance space as site-specific, even actual theatres.
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