Duckass

Top 30, 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, 2022

Inspired by the horror shorts of EC Comics, Duckass focuses on two sisters who invite a local boy to their family's storm cellar.
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Duckass

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  • Charles Scott Jones:
    3 Oct. 2022
    Like most great horror DUCKASS codifies a rite of passage. An ordinary case of nerves gives way to something frightful. Dan Caffrey plays masterfully with the creature-behind-the-door trope, but it's the banter of the two sisters, Tabby and Linny, that grounds the moral universe of this play and prepares us for Sherman. So quietly and effectively Caffrey builds the tension and adds some empathy for the duckassed boy-caller - just as things are about to get hairy. I love that Sherman says about attending horror films, "I get scared kinda easy," and how that fear leads to his doom.
  • Aurora Behlke:
    24 Aug. 2022
    I am (and will always be) a duckass superfan. What starts as an unassuming-yet-somehow-unsettling love story leaves you with your jaw on the ground by the last page. I love the weirdness of these characters!
  • Samantha Marchant:
    21 Aug. 2022
    The secrets at the beginning pay off in a fun way at the end.

Development History

  • Reading
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    Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival
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    2022

Production History

  • University
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    Webster
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    2021

Awards

Finalist
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Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival
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2022