DAY THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE - 9/7/2020
“WALT’S FOLLY” by DJS
I have literally been thinking about writing this short play for six months. The actually writing of it took about a week. I like what it distilled down to. I’ve always found Walt Disney to be a really fascinating character, even more so after reading Neal Gabler’s biography. This story is based on a real incident that happened in the run-up to Disneyland’s opening. I took what is known and extrapolated from there. Another big influence is the writing of Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen, The Crown). Hopefully the end result has the ring of truth to it.
Oh and I’m posting screenshots of the PDF, since I didn’t write it in Word. Shoutout to Writers Duet for making the formatting easy.
First six pages follow. The other five are in the subsequent post.