A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney

“A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney”

Written by Lucas Hnath

An Outside the March and Soulpepper Theatre Production

EXTENDED TO MAY 12 DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!
Performances begin April 13
The Young Centre for the Performing Arts

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See Walt. See Walt run. See Walt run a multinational media conglomerate, remaking the world in his image. See Walt contemplate that image. See Walt contemplate cryonics. See Disney on ice. See Walt’s family. Hear Walt’s screenplay. See Walt’s family hear Walt’s screenplay. See Walt melt.

Outside the March ‘reanimates the Head of Disney’ with this Toronto Premiere by Obie Award-winning dramatist Lucas Hnath (Dana H., A Doll’s House Part 2), one of the funniest and most formally daring playwrights of our moment. Starring Canadian theatre great Diego Matamoros as the man, the mouse, the legend—alongside the powerhouse cast of Katherine Cullen, Tony Ofori and Anand Rajaram, in a production directed by Mitchell Cushman and presented by Soulpepper Theatre.

Despite its title, this is neither a reading nor a screenplay; or rather, it’s both, in a brilliant 90-minute stage play. Hnath’s script is an intricately orchestrated merry-go-round of percussive language like a “hypercaffeinated David Mamet” (The New York Times). 

The production toys with far-fetched concepts like: what if a powerful billionaire pursued his own immortality at the expense of the world around him? What if Elon Musk could doodle? And what if a melting world is no place to keep a frozen head from thawing?

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Audience Advisory:
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney contains some explicit language and implicit references to capitalism’s concentration of power in the hands of egoistic, emotionally-stunted men. It’s appropriate for audiences 12+.

Full crediting below. 

Read the press release here. 

LEAD PRODUCTION SUPPORTERS
Laura Dinner and Richard Rooney

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Previews: April 13, 14, and 16
EXTENDED! Performances now run until May 12
Regular Performances: April 18 – May 12

General Admission: $55 (Previews $35)
Reserved: $75 (Previews $55)
Artsworker/Underwaged*: $35 (available with code CRYO at checkout)
*Limited number available for each performance

Pay-it-Forward Program
Outside the March has limited tickets available for audience members in financial need. Just email adriano@outsidethemarch.ca to request a single ticket, no questions asked. Or donate to the program “caffè sospeso”-style and give a stranger the gift of an evening at the theatre! Donate here.