I yell “barracuda”, everybody says, “Huh? What…?” I say, “Brody, Hooper and Quint”, and everyone knows instantly I’m talking about the film “Jaws.”
It’s widely known that the film’s production was beset by technical issues – not the least of which was the recurring failure of the mechanical sharks. Nearly as infamous, was the clashing of egos of the movie’s human stars.
Those elements are at the heart of “The Shark is Broken”, a stage play written by British playwrights Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw. That’s Shaw, as in the son of late actor Robert Shaw…