It’s been eight months since the Mavericks traded Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers. For a lot of Mavs fans, there probably is no such thing as “enough time” for us to get over the feeling of waking up to that news.
Two playwrights from Dallas though have turned that tragic evening into a classic theatre production, trying to make us all laugh about one of the biggest sports tragedies this city has ever known.
Mavericks fan Matt Lyle, along with fellow Mavs fanatic Matt Coleman co-wrote The Trade, a play that follows the events around the Luka trade. Lyle told WFAA, “It's one of the stages of my grief. It's the 8th stage. You write a play about it.”
Lyle and Coleman wrote The Trade in just a matter of months, and it’s running and getting rave reviews at Theatre Three in Dallas.
“It’s a comedy about a tragedy,” Lyle said. “At its heart, it is kind of a wild comedy that is good-natured, but also satire.”
The Trade runs through November 2 at Theatre Three.
Information about showtimes and tickets can be found HERE.
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