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Duck Variations, The

The most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger.

Village Voice

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 40 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Obie Award for Best New American Play (1976)
This play dramatizes the old adage that people who talk the most with authority about something are the ones most likely to know the least about it. Two old men discuss the ways of ducks and life, making observations that are profoundly hilarious.

Published with Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

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The most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger.

Village Voice
Premiere Production: Premiered at the Saint Nicholas Theatre in 1972 under the direction of David Mamet.
  • Casting: 2M
  • Casting Attributes: All Male, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • EMIL VARE
    GEORGE S. ARONOVITZ
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    This play dramatizes the old adage that people who talk the most with authority about something are the ones most likely to know the least about it. Two old men discuss the ways of ducks and life, making observations that are profoundly hilarious.Published with Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

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