UPCOMING SHOW 2 NIGHTS AT THE NATIONAL HOTEL DINGWALL
April Friday 6th and Saturday 7th
7.30pm
​Pay what you like

THE DUCK VARIATIONS
​by David Mamet

Plus Dance from plan B Young Company and Song from members of Dingwall Players

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“This amateur production of ‘The Duck Variations’ is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd”

David Alan Mamet; (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright and author.
​Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his screenplays for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.[3] His play Race opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009, and his play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017.

Mamet's books include: The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; Bambi vs. Godzilla, a commentary on the movie business; The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011), a commentary on cultural and political issues; and Three War Stories (2013), a trio of novellas about the physical and psychological effects of war.