←Recommendations of GEN

Mak's plays are like trees, with the playwright as an ingenious gardener-slash-ecologist, wary of both the depth of the roots into an ancient soil and the height of the branches, while also caring for each individual leaf. This play is rife with poetry, detail, vibrant texture and haunting, melodic themes of generational abuse and the power of wounds to stitch us together or pull us apart and into our own elliptical worlds. Every family story is a ghost story and Mak realizes that exquisitely onstage.

I am so excited, speechless, terrified, and euphoric after reading this play. Makaela is an ingenius poet and storyteller and when she invites horror into her storytelling? LOOK OUT. A play about a haunted house, a haunted family, revenge, and chosen family. Absolutely blown away!

This is one I definitely can't wait to see onstage. Shealy’s world-building here is great and the use of horror tropes is so creative. This is what horror theatre should be. This is what horror on film can do so well that theatre often can't achieve. It's not campy or cheesy. It's a genuinely scary play that says so much about trama that passes through generations. SOMEONE PLEASE PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!!

Everybody has that one moment when they realize that their parents don’t know everything. That they’re just human like us. So what if they’re wrong? “GEN” is a blistering, indicting tale of family loyalty wrapped up in a haunted, bloody bow, and I would do anything short of committing murder to see it on a stage. The atmosphere seeps out of the page and the visuals, instilling a slow dread that never quite stops, even when the bodies start dropping. A devilish play with teeth that bite, it is exactly what we need more of in theatre.