Two Magpies Productions presents
Duck
- Corn Exchange Auditorium
- Full price £14.25 /
- Concessions £12.25 (including booking fees)
It’s the summer of 2005.
As England prepare to win the Ashes, Ismail (Smiley to his friends), a British Indian schoolboy, is about to become the youngest-ever player in his elite public school’s First XI cricket team.
He sets his sights on immortality, breaking the school batting record and getting his name into Wisden. But things are about to heat up. From award-winning playwright maatin, Duck is about adolescence, the pressures of sporting competition and finding your identity in an environment that doesn’t cater for difference.
Recipient of the Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Fund 2024.
It could not feel more topical ★★★★
The Guardian
About the writer:
maatin is a British Indian, London-based writer, dramaturg, and producer who focuses on Muslim storytelling, working across theatre, radio, television, and film.
His play Friday at the masjid is a winner of the RSC’s 37 Plays, and longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 and the Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award 2022. Previous accolades include Hampstead Theatre’s INSPIRE new writing programme 2020/21; Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Awards 2021 (Shortlist – All3Media Comedy New Script Award); BBC Comedy Room 2020 (Longlist).
Performance time: 7.30pm
Duration: 1 hour (no interval)
Age guide: 12+
This performance has creative captions with projected text and illustrations onto the set.
Credits:
Produced by Broccoli Arts
Writer: maatin
Director: Imy Wyatt-Corner
Original design: Maariyah Shaarjil
Original lighting design: Jonathan Chan
Sound design: Holly Khan
Caption design: Rachel Sampley
Image Design: Alice Gorman
Production photographs: Isha Shah
DUCK was originally produced by Two Magpies Productions.
Content warning: This show contains distressing or potentially triggering themes of racism and islamophobia.
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