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

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.

I'm not fond of slasher flicks but after loving a production I saw of Yee's "In A Word", my daughter bought me the script of "Hookman". Once I opened it, I couldn't put it down. The young college students' dialogue was more than simplistically believable, it contrasted with the depth of Lexi's complex situation. Yes, there's blood and horror, but also a comic, disturbing view of what young people can go through before facing some of the real horrors of becoming adults.