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Two Magpies Productions presents

Duck



  • Corn Exchange Auditorium
  • Full price £14.25  / 
  • Concessions £12.25 (including booking fees)
A boy in black trousers and a white jumper poised with a cricket bat. stood in front of wickets on a stage with blue lit background.

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

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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