Overview
You’re out, boy.
Ismail’s turning fifteen and life is good. He’s about to become the youngest-ever member of his school’s cricket team, and be immortalised in Wisden. But as the season starts, a new coach threatens to derail his plans. Ismail soon learns that fortunes are fleeting in life and in sport, and that cricket may not be the gentlemanly game he once thought.
A searing examination of the inner workings of an elite schoolboy cricket team, Duck explores how racism boldly infects our most polite of institutions. Written by Creative Associate maatin, and directed by Abbey Creative Associate Imy Wyatt Corner.
People
Jo Walker
Producer
Producer
One of our Creative Associates, Jo is a theatre producer and production manager whose work explores marginalised identities and misrepresented narratives. She recently graduated from Producing Film and Television at the University of London and has produced at various fringe venues.
maatin
Author
Author
One of our Creative Associates. maatin is a playwright, screenwriter, and dramaturg. His work has been selected for the Mono Box's PLAYSTART 2019, he was selected for the Hampstead Theatre's INSPIRE Programme 2020/21 and has worked with the Royal Court
Imy Wyatt Corner
Director
Director
Our Abbey Creative Associate, Imy, is a theatre director from London who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She has worked mostly with new writing and in 2021 directed her first audio drama.