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The Duck Variations

Short Play, Comedy  /  2m

David Mamet

"The most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger." - The Village Voice

The Duck Variations

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    2m
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    • UIL Approved

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Summary

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

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David Mamet

David Mamet
David Mamet is the author of the plays: Race, Keep Your Pantheon, School, November, Romance, Boston Marriage, Faustus, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Sp ...
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