THE SHARK IS BROKEN
by Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon
Directed by Jay Briggs
featuring Matt Mundy, J. Richey Nash and Blake White
The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed . . . again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic . . . if it doesn’t sink them all.
Location: HHPS Main Street Theater, 3000 Main Street, HHI
Performance Dates: May 15 – 24, 2026
The Shark is Broken runs approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.
There will talkbacks with members of the production team following the May 16th, 17th, 22nd and 24th performances.
Sponsored by Boys Arnold Wealth Management
CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF
By: Viola Bennett • Bluffton-based Playwright
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 • 7:30PM
HHPS MAIN STREET THEATER
FREE ADMISSION
Leilah is trying to live a normal life, but when she is visited by her 14 year-old self and the woman she is becoming, the past she’s tried to outrun comes rushing into the present. As memory and reality blur, she must face a long-silenced violation that still echoes in her life, and the future she risks if she doesn’t make a change. Through this intimate and imaginative story, Conversations With Myself is a moving journey through the realities of trauma, denial, and self-reclamation.
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About The Playwright:
Viola Bennett has been a member of the Black Playwright’s Initiative at Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater since 2015. Her short plays Stealing Home,
The Laundromat, and Par for the Course have been featured in the theater’s festival, along with my biopic musicals More Than a Maid: Hattie McDaniel Past to Present and Dreams and Fantasies: A Dorothy Dandridge Story. She’s thrilled to become involved with Lean Ensemble Theater and share her works with this local community.