The things I love about this play are the characters, the genre and structure, and how queer it is. The main characters, including the dog Hoover, are specific and very human. Their earnest reckoning with identity and trauma is both compelling and makes me empathize with them. The use of SCOOBY DOO as a structural touchstone is genius and helps make the content more accessible to both queer audiences and the cis-hets. I especially love that this play centers young queer people as whole, complicated humans. I'd describe this play as fun and ruthlessly contemporary.

Jinkies! I loved this play. It's a queer riff on Scooby Doo that offers an inspiring take on the gang's origin story, steeped in cryptid lore with references to “The X-Files” and “Unsolved Mysteries.” There are exciting design challenges, including two tall puppets. The place names are really smart (Norville College, Roswell’s, The Jackalope), and the play combines camp humor with serious exploration of grief, trauma, anxiety, gender identity, and sexuality. The dramatic structure is clearly informed by the cartoon series, while ultimately breaking out of that formula to embrace the nuance and ambivalence of the interrobang symbol.

This is a gorgeous coming-of-age romp about cryptids and the people (and fellow cryptids) who love them. The puppets are delightful, the nostalgia is engaging, and the rituals are intricate in this tale of growing up, embracing queerness, and processing trauma and the fallibility of memory. I loved the authenticity of the central friend group, and watching them evolve over the course of the play was a treat. It's campy, funny, heartbreaking, scary, and mysterious, all in two tight hours of larger-than-life, strikingly intimate theatre.