The Shark Is Broken

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Jaws - Steven Spielberg’s breakthrough big-screen offering - opened in cinemas a half century ago this year and caused a major splash. 

Based on the same-named bestselling novel by Peter Benchley and starring theatre veteran Robert Shaw alongside two young Hollywood hotshots, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider, the film told the story of a summer resort town being terrorised by a great white shark. 

Jaws may have become an immediate classic, but the cast and crew were certainly swimming in choppy waters during the making of the movie... This Olivier Award-nominated play is set in 1974 and takes a look behind the scenes of one of Hollywood’s best loved and most famous blockbusters. Robert Shaw’s son, Ian, stars as his own dad in a show that’s described by its publicity as 95 minutes of ‘short tempers and short circuits, with no intermission’. 

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