←Recommendations of Jan Kultura, Substitute Teacher, Meets The Crowd

Ian Thal has just let us slip inside every substitute teacher's worse nightmare and we enjoyed every minute! What a tasty mix of realism with the absurd! Thanks for the great tongue-in-cheek lesson on economics!

There are myriad teachable moments in this brief hysterical play about creative economics, implicit bias and the pitfalls of public education. I would love to see this play in action and hear these words out loud. The character descriptions are some of the best I have ever read and hopefully would be included in the program!

Inventive and full of wit. Ian Thal has written a play to be savored and produced. Best ending line of a play ever!

Is there another writer as off-the-wall funny, inventive, and politically astute as Ian Thal? I think not. I love the risks he takes and the way he makes them pay off in this hilarious, but pointed short work.

We DO need plays about Capitalism, and this one-act is a highly economically-enlightening play, but its true value does not lie in its ability to teach us but in the form of how entertaining it is! Add it all up, and it's worth quite a lot!

This is one high-octane, verbally rich play. The barbs and creative reasoning (appropriate for the "creative economics" debated here) kept me riveted to the page with huge smiles and chuckles. All four characters have the smarts and are engaging and you cannot wait to hear what comes next. As the play draws to a close, you are left with, "Wait? Satire? Or is this a truth about our current economic climate?" Theatres, universities and high schools would all serve this play well. And leave everyone discussing the play.