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The Shark is Broken at Vagabond Players

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Art and entertainment are not mutually exclusive; something can tickle your funny bone and give you great pause for appreciation. And vice versa. It’s what Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon’s script The Shark is Broken sets out to prove. It’s now appearing— the area community premiere— at Vagabond Players, kicking off the back-half of the 110th season! Directed by Stephen Deininger, this fast-paced, truth-based theatrical engagement gives audiences a deeper look at what really happens when filming for a movie gets stalled in tight quarters.

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Kevin Corbett (left) as Robert Shaw with Steven Todd Smith (center) as Roy Scheider and Willem Rogers (right) as Richard Dreyfuss in The Shark Is Broken at Maryland Ensemble Theatre 📸spencephoto

The Shark Is Broken at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

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“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ~Chief Brody; Jaws 1975

Who knew that a line like that would still be titillating audiences literally 50 years later? I mean, “The human race won’t exist someday and here we are worrying about some stupid movie.” (Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon; The Shark Is Broken.) As the Spielberg iconic film enters its actual 50th year of cinematic relevance, the Maryland Ensemble Theatre kicks off their 2025/2026 Main-Stage season with this wild new production The Shark Is Broken,

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