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Six actors play thirteen characters in a production set in the homes, streets and bars of Dublin. Click on the pic for more information (full biogs are available in the Duck playtext)
ruth negga (Cat) Ruth trained at Trinity College, Dublin. Theatre includes: Doldrum Bay, Sons and Daughters and Lolita at the Peacock, Dublin, and Amy the Vampire and her sister Martina (Triscle Arts Centre, Cork). aidan o'hare (Eddie, Amanda, Michael) Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University. Theatre includes Blue at the Latchmere. On television Aidan plays Malcom in Switch (BBC) Film: Aidan plays Paul in Conspiracy of Silence due for release in 2003 tony rohr (Jack, Frankie) Tony is a founder member of Joint Stock and appeared in several productions including It's a Mad World My Masters, Fanshen and The Speakers. His many Royal Court performances include The Weir (West End and Australia), The Kitchen, Saved and Faith Healer. Other theatre includes The Painter of Dishonour (RSC), The Walls (National Theatre) The Plough and the Stars (Gaiety, Dublin), Our Country's Good (West End), Translations (Donmar), The Power of Darkness (Abbey, Dublin) and The Playboy of the Western World (West Yorkshire Playhouse). On screen, his Television includes The Lakes, Father Ted, Prime Suspect, Cracker, Taggart, Harry’s Game and Middlemarch and the films Sweety Barrett, Most Important and The Long Good Friday. Tony has performed in numerous radio productions. karl shiels (Mark) Karl is Artistic Director of Irish company Semper Fi and has directed many projects for them including Ladies and Gents for the Dublin Festival (Fringe Festival Sexiest Show Award). He won the best Actor Award at the festival for Comedians in 1999. Extensive acting work for the Abbey includes At Swim – Two Birds and Henry IV. Other theatre work includes The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, This Lime Tree Bower, the acclaimed Howie the Rookie and Hamlet. Karl’s television work includes Any Time Now, Attachments and On Home Ground. Film work includes the forthcoming Veronica Guerin (dir. Joel Schumacher) and Intermission. He played Che Quevara opposite John Hurt in Meeting Che Guevara and the man from Maybury Hill. elaine symons (Sophie) Elaine trained at RADA. Theatre includes: ‘A Handful of Stars’ and ‘Poor Beast in the Rain’ from The Wexford Trilogy at The Tricycle, and Richard III (Beckett Centre, Dublin) On Television she played Saffron in Channel 4’s As If, and was in Touched by an Angel, Custers’ Last Stand Up, Sinners, Bachelors Walk and Fair City. Radio work for RTE includes: The Fisherman, The Persuit of Happiness and Rhinoceros, and The Real Charlotte for BBC. Elaine has been involved in developing a new film by Gerry Stembridge, and plays Marie in Conspiracy of Silence due for release in 2003. stella feehily (writer) Stella Feehily was born in London, and grew up in Bundoran, County Donegal. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. Acting work in Dublin includes A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre), Macbeth (Tivoli), Ten (Project Arts Centre), Letters to Felice (Pavillion) and Iphigenia At Aulis (Abbey). Writing includes the short play Game (Project Arts Centre). Duck is her first full-length play. She says 'It’s about escape, and the right to define yourself rather than everybody else telling you who you are. It's also about a self-destructiveness that these teenagers have to come to terms with in order to survive; a discovery of their power and how not to use it against themselves.'. creative team |
