Duck In Cowville Analysis

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In our class play we performed, “Ducks in Cowville,” but it was a bust. Our failure was not just one person’s fault. We all contributed to the disaster.
The atrocious acting was the main reason that “Ducks in Cowville” was a wreck. The actors who played the cows were Ben, Jill, Chris, and Feliz. They remembered most of their lines, but the actors who played the ducks did not. Someone said that the ducks had only one rehearsal. No one could hear Enrico’s solo, “oh Lonely Duck.” But that might have been a good thing since he mixed up some of the words, and because of that the audience sure did laugh a lot!
Our costumes were another reason that the play was not a success. The horns on the cow costumes kept falling off, and then there were the

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