HOOKMAN by Lauren Yee

Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls’ throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up – and it’s not pretty.

Hookman is a play about loss, specifically about confronting the notion that there's things you can't beat. Our production of Hookman embraced horror and trope, exploring grief and trauma through buckets of blood and literally destroying our set and stage.

Produced by the School of Performance at X University and Cole Lewis

April 9 and 14 2022

Directed by Aaron Jan

Lighting Design by Logan Cracknell

Set and Costumes by Melanie McNeill

Sound Design by Sam Ferguson

Staged Managed by Annasofie Jakobson

Production Managed by Hunter Kennedy-Rullo

Technical Direction by Nathan Gregory

Props and Blood Design by Sabrina Pye

Fight Choreography by Siobhan Richardson