30,000 plastic ducks sank in the North Pacific in 1992 after their cargo ship was bombed by a US fighter jet. This is the tale of their voyage, the double life of the man who made them and thirty years of secrets and lies.

This isn't the story of me being abandoned at the age of six months by my father - because he still came home every evening for his tea. The problem was he never actually told my mother he'd moved in with another woman. And because my mother never told anybody that he'd left and we (his three children) didn't mention anything to our friends, somehow the whole thing became a secret we were excellent at keeping.

Dean Parkin's Dean's Dad's Ducks is a brilliantly written and mischievously told debut theatre show by an offbeat, tender and entertaining poet and performer. Expect a mix of stories, poems and songs about bubblewrap, swan machines and lemon trees on trains - and a childhood lost in the Kingdom of Lies. Funny, bittersweet journeys with one dodgy Dad and his flotilla of plucky ducks.

"Delightful, funny and poignant" Matt Harvey, Radio 4, Saturday Live

"An exuberantly eccentric imagination" Christopher Reid, Costa Book Award Winner