Freya and Gillian are teachers who have offended their school board and lost their jobs. Davis and Reagan are yard sale fanatics in search of a priceless antique duck decoy, the Horace Crandall Mallard. What follows is a fierce, funny and escalating battle over a symbol that has wildly different meanings – intersecting the couples in a journey that far surpasses the quest for treasure.
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MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT
By Vincent Delaney
Vincent Delaney is thrilled to return to PlayFest, where The Art of Bad Men (2005), Fallbridge (2006), Three Screams (2007) and The Wheel Woman (2020) all got their start. His plays have been produced, commissioned and developed at the Guthrie, Humana Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, LAByrinth, New Harmony Project, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Children’s Theatre Company, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, Shakespeare and Company, Pittsburgh Public, Playlabs and Seattle Rep, among many others.
THE MALLARD was developed at Palm Beach Dramaworks, B Street Theatre, Capital Rep and Premiere Stages, where it won the new play festival. LAS CRUCES, FORECLOSURE and THE ANSEL INTIMACY were produced in the same festival.
THE WAR PARTY was developed through the National New Play Network, and had simultaneous world premieres at Seattle Public Theatre and Philadelphia’s InterAct. It was selected to the New York International Fringe Festival. FIRE STATION 7 was commissioned by Seattle Children’s Theatre, where it had its world premiere. 99 LAYOFFS premiered at ACT Theatre and Radial Theatre Project, and was produced at Orange Theatre in Amsterdam; the script was a nominee for the ATCA Steinberg Award.
THE SEQUENCE, commissioned by the Guthrie, has been produced around the U.S. and in Japan, Canada, Australia and the UK. AMPERSAND won the Reva Shiner Comedy Award from the Bloomington Playwrights Project.
Other awards include McKnight and Bush Fellowships, Core Membership at the Playwrights Center, the Heideman from Actors Theatre of Louisville, and a Jerome Commission.
He was commissioned to adapt the recent Netflix documentary HEIST into a feature film. His comedy ORLANDO CARES is in pre-production with Story Mill Productions.
Publications: Applause Books, Smith and Kraus, Samuel French, Heineman, Dramatics Magazine, Theatre Forum, and Playscripts.com. Vince is a proud alum of the Seattle Rep Writers Group and a member of the Greenroom screenwriters collective.
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ABOUT PLAYFEST
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