Rob Williams enjoys a play about a film about a shark at The Lowry - but laments a missed opportunity to go deeper.

The irony is, had everything gone according to plan and the mechanical shark worked as expected, Jaws would be a lesser film for it. Instead, it’s the ultimate example of how less can sometimes ...

The rub of the play is this: Rather than mess with real shark-wrangling, the crew of Jaws built a mechanical creature, affectionately named “Bruce,” which was forever on the fritz. This ...

The shark is broken. Indeed, that intriguing title merely reflects the banal fact that during making of Stephen Spielberg's first blockbuster and surprise hit, Jaws, the mechanical sharks (there were ...

The best screen adaptations elevate their source material in some way. Whether that's by adding more depth to the characters, ...

Hit comedy play The Shark Is Broken is set during the making of Jaws and comes to Theatre Royal Nottingham from February 26 ...

A OLIVIER Award-nominated play about the making of Jaws is coming to Malvern. The Shark is Broken will be performed at the ... at the mercy of the weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. The Sunday ...

It’s been reported that when the clunky mechanical shark malfunctioned during the filming of Jaws, director Steven Spielberg – working on the principle ‘less is more’ – decided to use ...

The premise of The Shark is Broken is deceptively simple; three men in a boat, waiting and talking. We meet the cast of a new ...