{"id":372034,"date":"2025-09-16T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/?p=372034"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:23:27","slug":"this-one-act-dramedy-imagines-the-spats-behind-the-scenes-during-the-making-of-jaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/2025\/09\/16\/this-one-act-dramedy-imagines-the-spats-behind-the-scenes-during-the-making-of-jaws\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Shark Is Broken\u2019 at Maryland Ensemble Theatre lacks bite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>British actor Robert Shaw received top billing in\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>, but the biggest divo on the set was the shark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicknamed \u201cBruce\u201d after director Steven Spielberg\u2019s lawyer, the mechanical\u00a0<em>Carcharodon carcharias<\/em>\u00a0malfunctioned for most of the film\u2019s production, which took place for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/hollywood\/business\/jaws.html#:~:text=Not%20only%20that%2C%20but%20the,t%20a%20big%2Dbudget%20movie.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">159 days<\/a>\u00a0in 1974 along the east coast of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThe shark is not working\u201d became a constant refrain during the film\u2019s long shoot, leaving the three principal actors \u2014 Roy Scheider as a local police chief, Richard Dreyfuss as an ichthyologist, and Shaw as the grizzled shark hunter, Quint \u2014 marooned together for weeks at a time on board the Orca, a 42-foot former lobster boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-372036\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_391-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_391-800x600-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_391-800x600-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_391-800x600-1-460x345.jpg 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_391-800x600-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kevin Corbett as Robert Shaw, Steven Todd Smith as Roy Sheider, and Willem Rogers as Richard Dreyfuss in \u2018The Shark Is Broken.\u2019 Photo by David Spence of Spence Photography.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Shark Is Broken<\/em>, a one-act play by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, aptly timed for the film\u2019s 50th\u00a0anniversary this year, and running through October 5 at Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), is a behind-the-scenes dramedy that imagines the chats, spats, feuds, and fisticuffs that occurred during all that downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each\u00a0<em>Jaws\u00a0<\/em>actor has his own coping strategy befitting his nature. Roy Scheider (Steven Todd Smith) strips down to his Speedo to sunbathe, Richard Dreyfuss (MET Ensemble member Willem Rogers, nailing Dreyfuss\u2019s hand gestures and boyish giggle) neurotically frets about his career, and Robert Shaw (Capitol Steps alum Kevin Corbett), an alcoholic who died at age 51, drinks like a fish and taunts Dreyfuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a nod to Hitchcock\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lifeboat<\/em>, director Gen\u00e9 Fouch\u00e9 wisely confines the action to the ship, a thoroughly detailed replica of the Orca courtesy of set designer David DiFalco, creating a sense of claustrophobia that\u2019s only heightened by the MET\u2019s intimate venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the dramatic stakes are low (we know that\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>\u00a0became a blockbuster), and the ironic, meta-humor is lazy, such as when Shaw, predicting Spielberg\u2019s future directorial moves, asks, \u201cWhat next, dinosaurs?\u201d Or when he declares that no future president could be more immoral than Richard \u201cTricky Dick\u201d Nixon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Shark Is Broken<\/em>\u00a0is billed as a three-hander, but Steven Todd Smith has little to do here besides showing off his lithe, Scheider-esque physique and breaking up fights between Dreyfuss and Shaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willem Rogers is gifted the play\u2019s funniest lines as Dreyfuss (often\u00a0at his character\u2019s expense), but even those feel like warmed-over Woody Allen routines: \u201cJews should stay away from water. Nothing good ever happened to any Jews on the water.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-372037\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_235.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_235.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_235-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_235-460x307.jpeg 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MET_The_Shark_is_Broken_Theatre_235-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Willem Rogers as Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Corbett as Robert Shaw, and Steven Todd Smith as Roy Sheider in \u2018The Shark Is Broken.\u2019 Photo by David Spence of Spence Photography.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The play\u2019s co-writer Ian Shaw, the son of Robert Shaw, used his father\u2019s drinking diary as source material, and he is unsparing here in his depiction of his father\u2019s struggles with alcohol. When Rogers\u2019s Richard Dreyfuss throws a bottle of Shaw\u2019s bourbon overboard (true story), you believe that Shaw the elder is capable of murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As written by Shaw the younger, Shaw is also surprisingly generous. In an invented scene, Corbett&#8217;s Shaw rescues Dreyfuss from a panic attack with a spontaneous rendition of Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnet 29 (\u201cWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men&#8217;s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state\u201d), perhaps to remind us that Robert Shaw toured with the Old Vic and was directed by Gielgud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet the real drama in this play exists off stage, in the father-son dynamic between Ian Shaw and his father, who died in 1978 when Ian Shaw was only 8, and in whose career footsteps he followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Shaw not only co-wrote\u00a0<em>The Shark Is Broken<\/em>\u00a0but also played his father in previous productions from the West End to Broadway. It&#8217;s only by reading\u00a0<em>The Shark Is Broken<\/em>\u00a0as an Oedipal struggle between the two Shaws that the play makes a claim on our emotions.\u00a0Ian Shaw may have spent his life\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/02\/theater\/jaws-play-the-shark-is-broken.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoiding associations<\/a>\u00a0with his more famous father, but this play is rather transparently his attempt to measure up to his father\u2019s formidable talent. To quote the tagline from\u00a0<em>Jaws: The Revenge,\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThis time, it\u2019s personal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Clark\u2019s fastidiously accurate costumes succeed in turning actor Kevin Corbett into a believable facsimile of Robert Shaw, and Corbett does yeomanlike work delivering the famous U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue from\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>\u00a0that serves as the play\u2019s climax.\u00a0But without a Shaw in the captain\u2019s chair,\u00a0<em>The Shark Is Broken<\/em>\u00a0is just treading water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running Time: 100 minutes with no intermission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/marylandensemble.org\/the-shark-is-broken\/\">The Shark Is Broken\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>plays through October 5, 2025, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marylandensemble.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryland Ensemble Theatre<\/a>\u2018s Robin Drummond Main Stage, 31 W Patrick Street, Frederick, MD. Tickets are $15\u2013$36, and can be purchased by phone at 301-694-4744,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ci.ovationtix.com\/35900\/production\/1244119https:\/ci.ovationtix.com\/35900\/production\/1244119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or in person at the MET box office, open Tuesday to Thursday, 12 \u2013 6 p.m., Fridays 12 \u2013 4 p.m., and one hour before performances.\u00a0Pay What You Will discounts are available for students, seniors, and military starting at $7, for each performance, while supplies last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ASL Interpreted performance will take place September 19, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COVID Safety:\u00a0<\/strong>Facemasks are strongly encouraged but not required.\u00a0MET\u2019s Safety policy can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marylandensemble.org\/about-met\/safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one-act dramedy imagines the spats behind the scenes during the making of \u2018Jaws.\u2019   By GEOFFREY MELADA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":372036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maryland","8":"category-reviews"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - 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