Small-town yard sale is unlikely setting of high-stakes showdown in new play, ‘The Mallard’
By: JAY LUSTIG | Published: 2025-07-23 18:04:00 | Source: www.njarts.net
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MIKE PETERS
From left, Victoria Pollack, Susan Ferrara and Jennifer Leigh Houston co-star in Premiere Stages’ production of “The Mallard.”
The title of “The Mallard” — Vincent Delaney’s new play, which Premiere Stages is currently presenting at Kean University in Union, in its world premiere — refers to a hunting decoy that characters describe, more than once, as a “hunk of wood.” But there is more to it, of course, than that.
To Freya, a second-grade schoolteacher living in a run-down home in the Midwest, it is a cherished gift from her late father. And to Reagan and Davis — yard sale enthusiasts from New York who travel around the country, looking for bargains — it is a treasure that could make them rich.
But can they get the stubborn Freya to…
