Disney Off Ice - Hard Copy Publication

PRE-ORDER NOW. Arrival date: Thursday 23rd October, 2025

Hard copy, printed on recycled paper. This publication is shipped to you. Australia wide. Unfortunately, we are not able to ship outside Australia at this time.

Disney Off Ice by Oliver Gough, commissioned and developed through Observatory Theatre's Telescope New Writing program. First premiered in 2024.

It's the tell-all of the century! Hilarious and thought-provoking, Disney Off Ice is a terrifically absurd lampoon of the man, myth and legend Walt Disney himself!

After decades frozen in the cryonic tank of urban legend, Disney is feeling refreshed and ready to make his mark in the new world. But times have changed. The theme parks are gone. And it’s not such a small world after all. Now, he finds himself the property of a media conglomerate and at the heel of a strict publicist determined to set him straight. Welcome to the future, Disney!

Imagining the infamous theory of his cryonic freezing, this wild rollercoaster from Oliver Gough wonders what world Mr. Disney would wake to, and what world he has helped to create...

REVIEWS

“Really impactful. An original work that will capture the attention of audiences with interest in dystopian worlds, and a hatred of capitalism and nostalgic cultishness” -
Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane

“With themes circling around the cult of celebrity and the separation of art and artist, it is a multi-layered story. This inventive new work is not only entertaining but inspiring to the imagination" - Blue Curtains Brisbane

“Entertaining and outrageous, but beyond the comedy the play has some interesting things to say about the intersection of celebrity, capitalism and cultural connection in our modern world" - Backstreet Brisbane

“Gough’s script is a lexical rich one, full of evocation and antithesis. Indeed, for all of its absurdity, this is an interesting play in its creation of a futuristic hypothetical imagining, with a touch of the apocalyptic to the bigger-picture unfold of its scenario" - Blue Curtains Brisbane