Gwyneth v. Skier: You Be the Judge!

“Gwyneth Goes Skiing,” Karp and Martin’s two-man comic play about the fracas, recently sold out at London’s Pleasance Theatre, where it is billed as “a story of love, betrayal, and skiing—where you are the jury.” (Audience members are invited to vote at the end.) The creators—late twenties, earnest—met while working the Harry Potter photo op at King’s Cross station. (“He was throwing scarves, I was taking photos,” Martin said.) They have been engaged for five years. Their previous play, “Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story,” was a campy hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and decried by a former Cabinet minister as “repellent trash.” When “Gwyneth” was announced, the flurry of interest surprised the playwrights. Various outlets mistakenly called it a musical, and then a West End musical. It is a play with music, they clarified, written by Leland, of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” It was not in the West End. In May, it will open for a short run at the Egyptian Theatre, in Park City, Utah, where the crash took place.