Cast Announced for The Shark Is Broken
Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, GFour Productions and Kenny Wax are delighted to announce casting of The Shark Is Broken.
The critically acclaimed Olivier award-nominated play, The Shark Is Broken, co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, will be joining us here at The Rep as part of their UK and Ireland 2025 tour – celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1975 iconic blockbuster, Jaws.
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.
Ian Shaw stars as his father, Robert Shaw, alongside Dan Fredenburgh as Roy Scheider, and Ashley Margolis as Richard Dreyfuss.
Joining the creative team: Martha Geelan directs the tour of The Shark Is Broken, based on original direction by Guy Masterson, set and costume design by Duncan Henderson, lighting design by Jon Clark, sound design by Adam Cork, video design by Nina Dunn. Assistant director Molly Stacey, associate sound designer James Melling.