←Recommendations of Simon Says

SO GOOD. I listened to the reading they did on Gather by The Ghost Light. I love horror so much.

Treat yourselves and listen to this wonderfully creepy play on Gather by the Ghost Light podcast!
To take an innocent kids game and turn it on its head in quite a horrific way is inspired!
Now I will always do as Simon says, or maybe I have no choice anyway....
Brilliant!

Eerie and compelling, this play builds subtly and wittily to its horrific climax. The hubris of the cynical camera operator earns her a terrible comeuppance. A seemingly benign children's game is revealed to have a dark history. Indeed, a dark present. Play with Michelle at your own risk.

I love stories like this, where something innocent (i.e. a children’s game) is twisted into something sinister! ‘Simon Says’ is a creepy exploration of terrifying, hidden power, and I enjoyed listening to it all unfold on the Gather by the Ghost Light podcast!

It’s all fun and games until SIMON SAYS! What starts out as an interview for a documentary on the origin of children’s games and chants and how they became widely known (an interesting topic, for sure), becomes weirder, creepier, and downright frightening! Erin Moughon does a brilliant job of lulling us into a false sense of security as the two-person crew goes about setting up for the interview. A great script waiting to scare the daylights out of audiences everywhere.

I am already a huge Erin Moughon fan, and what a treat to discover such a compelling, new-to-me play! Like the content itself, this short begins with fun and games - creepy vibes and goofy overreactions - and escalates and escalates until it enters the realm of true horror! Best of all, you don't need any special effects (other than a trio of dedicated actors) to pull off the most terrifying, gut-clenching aspects of this script! When a play is both this compelling and this producible, it's certain to contribute to more genre theatre on our stages! Bravo!

Oh man. It was funny and then it got creepy and then it got scary - and it wasn't a very long play! What a masterclass. Erin Moughon knows how to tell a story that gets you.

A shocking play that manages to be truly, deeply scary in just 30 minutes. All of the horror here comes directly from Moughon's precise and intricately set-up dialogue, which drives the heart of this perfectly-constructed psychological horror and delivers a chilling end. A masterclass in horror that doesn't need flashy bells and whistles—it's all there in the writing.

Simon Says will never be the same after this riveting horror play! You won't want to miss a second!

What an eerily engaging play. Moughon takes a familiar children's game and unpacks the dangers that lurk within the power of a simple phrase. Luring us in with the comedy of a pleasantly idiosyncratic setup, we have no idea what awaits. Bone-chilling and deftly written, this genuine horror play deserves a stage.