Collage featuring a cricket batsman in action, surrounded by various cut-out elements like a cell phone, red cricket ball, newspaper excerpts, and graphics including the text "Howzat!" against an orange background. A man on stage in cricketing attire swings a cricket bat towards the audience. A man on stage in cricketing attire stares forward as if watching a ball in the air. A man on stage in cricketing attire swings a cricket bat towards the audience. A boy in cricket whites and a party hat delivers a monologue to the audience
Theatre

Duck

Two Magpies Productions and Pleasance

Edinburgh

Pleasance Courtyard
Beneath

15:40

60 mins

12+ (Guideline)

From £9.00

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31st Jul - 26th Aug

It’s the summer of 2005, England prepares to win the Ashes and 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.

 

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Captioned Performance: All performances of Duck will be captioned.

Captioning Type: Open integrated captions.

Accessible concessions available online. 

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It could not feel more topical.

The Guardian

Powerful and understated

All That Dazzles

Thought-provoking and moving story

Everything Theatre

So entertaining yet hits hard when it needs to

Broadway World

Charismatic and charming

Spy in the Stalls

Duck is a sweet and playful, but powerfully relevant piece of theatre.

Theatre Weekly

Courage and resilience fuel this inspiring story about personal overcoming and self determination

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Duck

Edinburgh

Pleasance Courtyard
Beneath

(60 mins)

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