←Recommendations of Teeth

I love that Paula stands up to Dr. Sanderson in "Teeth." Yes, you can love this script for its dark humor, absurdity, and even brief interspecies interlude. But don't overlook the anti-prejudice thread running throughout. Well done, Max Reuben.

I teach this play to students because it's just so delightful, so surprising and inventive and well executed. Absolutely recommend this play to anyone, but particularly to anyone working with young people and eager to show them what's possible on stage and why we write plays to begin with.

Clever, taut, and deft, with an ending as inevitable as it is unexpected. Puts a new spin on "sink your teeth into it."

Absurd and hilarious. What a wonderful way to liven up a dentists office. So fun!

I have not laughed this hard at an ending in so long. What a ridiculously pleasant play! It explores racism, assumption, fear mongering and nature all without saying one word about it. This is absurdity at its best, consider me a Max Reuben fan now.

When I saw what this was about I had to read it and it didn't disappoint. The absurdity of a T Rex in a dentist's office wasn't simply played for laughs, but also delivered a nice little love story I could sink my teeth into!

It's a dinosaur in a waiting room! What's not to love about that!? But the play is also more. If you've ever held down a receptionist/front desk job, you know the pains of dealing with a difficult client and a difficult boss at the same time. Rueben takes that scenario into the realm of absurdity, here, with hilarious results. The creation of a dinosaur onstage (through physicality rather than costume, as the playwright suggests) would be marvelous to see, and, within Rueben's crisp, quick 10-minute comedy, the payoff would be great!

Great, absurd fun. Filled with interesting tension.