Lucas Hnath's darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Life of W alt Disney centers on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylized screenplay w ritten by the great man himself, in the ultimate act of self-mythologizing. It's being read by the people it's about-W alt himself, his brother/henchman Roy, and W alt's resentful daughter and her ex-jock husband. It's about W alt's last days on earth. It's about a city he's going to build that's going to change the w orld. And it's about his brother. It's about everyone w ho loves him, and how sad they're going to be w hen he's gone. Can W alt control the future from the grave? W hy does his daughter hate him so much? W ere thousands of lemmings harmed in the making of a famous Disney nature film? Stay tuned.
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Life of Walt Disney