Hookman

by Lauren Yee

Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls’ throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up – and it’s not pretty.

Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls’ throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up – and it’s not pretty.

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  • Allison Page: Hookman by Lauren Yee
    “

    I saw Hookman at Z Space in 2015 and I still think about that production 10 years later. I love this play.

    I saw Hookman at Z Space in 2015 and I still think about that production 10 years later. I love this play.

    ”
  • Tom Patterson: Hookman by Lauren Yee
    “

    One of my favorites. A great examination of the slasher genre that leans in on existential dread, life, death, and freshman year of college.

    One of my favorites. A great examination of the slasher genre that leans in on existential dread, life, death, and freshman year of college.

    ”
  • Eric Pfeffinger: Hookman by Lauren Yee
    “

    Sometimes genre is a straitjacket, but for "Hookman" the crazed slasher motif is a springboard -- to an endlessly surprising mixture of dream logic, urban legend, coming-of-age anxieties, dark deadpan comedy, and blood-drenched grand guignol that's somehow both generationally anchored in contemporary youth culture and timelessly relatable.

    Sometimes genre is a straitjacket, but for "Hookman" the crazed slasher motif is a springboard -- to an endlessly surprising mixture of dream logic, urban legend, coming-of-age anxieties, dark deadpan comedy, and blood-drenched grand guignol that's somehow both generationally anchored in contemporary youth culture and timelessly relatable.

    ”
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Development History

  • Reading, Magic Theatre, 2013
  • Reading, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, 2012

Production History

  • Professional, Encore Theatre/Z Space, 2015
  • Workshop, Company One, 2012