PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath !!!

by Alexa Derman

Something is amiss at Yale University. Female students are disappearing at alarming rates, only to be later found stuffed in discount mini-fridges and hacked to pieces. Meanwhile, a new freshman is pretty sure there’s something up with the guy she met at the campus bar last night...

Something is amiss at Yale University. Female students are disappearing at alarming rates, only to be later found stuffed in discount mini-fridges and hacked to pieces. Meanwhile, a new freshman is pretty sure there’s something up with the guy she met at the campus bar last night...

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PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath !!!

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  • Shaun Leisher: PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath !!!

    A stunning work of horror and satire. Somebody needs to produce this.

    A stunning work of horror and satire. Somebody needs to produce this.

  • Brynn Hambley: PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath !!!

    A masterful use of allegory/extended metaphor, pacing, and atmosphere that beautifully calls out colleges for not doing enough to protect their women, femme, and AFAB students. I absolutely adore works that use horror as a tool to unveil the visceral, and yet sometimes invisible, experiences that women and femmes go through, and Psychopsychotic does this very intelligently. I would love to see this staged!

    A masterful use of allegory/extended metaphor, pacing, and atmosphere that beautifully calls out colleges for not doing enough to protect their women, femme, and AFAB students. I absolutely adore works that use horror as a tool to unveil the visceral, and yet sometimes invisible, experiences that women and femmes go through, and Psychopsychotic does this very intelligently. I would love to see this staged!

  • Nick Malakhow: PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath !!!

    An unsettling, darkly humorous, and razor sharp exploration of college rape culture and the ways schools consistently fail women and femme folk and oftentimes even pit women against one another. The genre-bending mash up of horror, absurdism, and satire serves the story and theme well, putting into stark relief the absolute absurdism of these systematic failings and harms. I'd be excited to see this in production!

    An unsettling, darkly humorous, and razor sharp exploration of college rape culture and the ways schools consistently fail women and femme folk and oftentimes even pit women against one another. The genre-bending mash up of horror, absurdism, and satire serves the story and theme well, putting into stark relief the absolute absurdism of these systematic failings and harms. I'd be excited to see this in production!

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Character Information

there are no roles for men in this play
  • 1
    a nice guy (a college student)
  • 2
    she's a girl (a college freshman)
  • 3
    she's a girl, too (a college senior)

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Yale Drama Coalition, Year 2017

Production History

  • Type University, Organization Brown University, Year 2023
  • Type University, Organization Brown University, Year 2018
  • Type University, Organization Yale Drama Coalition, Year 2018

Awards

  • Relentless Award
    American Playwriting Foundation
    Honorable Mention
    2018
  • Marina Keegan Award for Excellence
    Yale University Departments of English and Theatre Studies
    Winner
    2018
  • Bay Area Playwrights Festival
    Semi-Finalist
    2018
  • Project Playwright
    Sanguine Theatre Company
    Finalist
    2018
  • Downstage Left Residency
    Stage Left Theatre
    Semi-Finalist
    2018