Publisher's 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 . . .
