DUCK

Arcola Theatre (2023), Pleasance Courtyard (2024), South East Tour (2025)

Cast & creative team:

Playwright: maatin

Director: Imy Wyatt Corner

Producer: Katy Galloway 

Set, costume and animation design: Maariyah Sharjil

Movement direction: Hamza Ali 

Sound Design: Holly Khan 

Assistant Direction: Maaryam Shaharuddin

Lighting Design: Jonathan Chan 

Production Management: Chloe Stally Gibson 

Stage Managemen: Ibraheem Hamirani 

Projection and creative captioning: Rachel Sampley

Performers: Omar Bynon (2023) & Qasim Mahmood (2024, 2025) 

Press: 

‘Engaging 90 minute performance owes much to the direction of Imy Wyatt Corner and designer Maariyah Sharjil’ ★★★★ The Guardian

‘Directed by Imy Wyatt Corner, this is a visually appealing production, graphics give a huge amount of clarity to the piece.’★★★★ Theatre Weekly 

‘Directed by Imy Wyatt Corner, the play successfully manages to engage us in both its narrative and character arc with astonishing speed’ ★★★★.5 First Night Magazine 

‘That the play is so entertaining yet hits hard when it needs to, is a testament to a writer, actor and director who know how to tell an engaging story and how to make a message stick.’ ★★★★ Broadway World

'Corner’s delicate approach and preference to acknowledge the childish and boyish joy… pays off when the harsher themes come to light’ ★★★★  All that Dazzles

‘A heartwarming, elegantly developed story that pulls the audience into its embrace before subtly and almost imperceptibility developing an undercurrent of racism’ ★★★★  Everything Theatre

‘Omar Bynon is charismatic and charming as Ismail. ‘ ★★★★  The Spy in the Stalls