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 about a city he\'s going to build that\'s going to.
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.
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