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Feb 28 (Fri) 2025: 8:00 pm
March 1 (Sat) 2025: 8:00 pm
About the Show
Ventriloquist. Children’s entertainer. Psychologist. Activist. Susan Linn’s astonishing career has taken her from the set of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood to the front page of The New York Times. Through it all, Audrey Duck, her ageless avian sidekick, has provided cheeky, occasionally neurotic, always truthful commentary. Now, while Susan ponders mortality and grapples with the world’s uncertain future, Audrey is convinced their dynamic duo will last forever.
Join Susan and Audrey as they unravel their tangled past and tackle important questions of life, death, art, and the universe. Part stand-up comedy, part philosophical musing on the human condition, WHAT THE DUCK?!? is the hilarious, honest, and deeply edifying evening of entertainment you didn’t know you needed.
Meet the Puppets
Stay after the show to meet Susan and Audrey!
Recommended for adults 18+
Ventriloquism and hand puppetry
Length: 45 minutes
Language: English
From Brookline!
Pay-What-You-Can Puppets at Night!
The suggested ticket price is $25, but you choose your price. To make live theater accessible, we’re selling tickets for this show through a pay-what-you-can model. Each dollar over $25 helps include someone who can't afford it, while allowing us to pay the artists & staff and cover the cost of running our theater.
About the Artist
Susan Linn, Ed.D., is an award-winning ventriloquist, psychologist, author, and world-renowned expert on creative play, and the impact of tech and commercial marketing on children. Her astonishing career has taken her from the set of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood to the front page of The New York Times. Through it all, Audrey Duck, her ageless avian sidekick, has provided cheeky, occasionally neurotic, always truthful commentary.
Dr. Linn is internationally known for her use of puppets as therapeutic tools for children. She pioneered this work at Children's Hospital Boston and the Children’s AIDS Program, where she used puppets to help children cope with illness, hospitalization, death, loss, and other life challenges. She has written and performed in a number of award-winning video programs designed to help children cope with issues ranging from death and loss, racism and other bigotries, and most recently, various stresses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
With Fred Rogers’ production company, she created the acclaimed video series, Different and the Same: Helping Children Identify and Prevent Prejudice. Different and the Same has been used in classrooms in all 50 states and won numerous awards, including the two top prizes from the International Communication Film and Video Competition and the Media Award from the Association of Multicultural Educators. Among other honors, Dr. Linn received an UNIMA-USA citation for excellence, a special award for puppet therapy from Puppeteers of America; A Champion of Freedom Award from the Electronic Privacy Information Center; The Creative Leadership Award from the Puppet Showplace Theater; The Fred Rogers Integrity Award from Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, and a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for her work on behalf of children.
A passionate advocate for children, Dr. Linn was Founding Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (now called Fairplay) from 2000-2015. She lectures internationally on the importance of creative play, the impact of tech, media, and marketing on children, and on puppetry as a therapeutic tool.
