←Recommendations of The Trade Federation, or, Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels

What I love about Trade Federation is how it captures that nostalgic feeling of what excited us as a child and then turns into a serious and dark interrogation of memory under an adult lens. The Trade Federation forces us all to confront the rose-tinted glasses of what stories our young selves felt comfort in, and reexamine whether or not we can coexist with those stories today. It's really fun. Highly recommend.

There's always that point in a playwright's early/"emerging" career where they write about themselves in some way and we should all be thankful Andy did it this way and not any other, mashing together a potent, existential slurry of nerd lore, theatre magic, identity, and sizzling anticapitalism presented in a way that actually makes sense to the uninitiated. I really really hate to say something like this but I have to: these were exactly the droids I was looking for (wrong trilogy, I know).

A fantastic anti capitalism pitch that will change the way you look at Star Wars. Well done.

The Trade Federation is the absolute best of contemporary playwriting: critically and unabashedly analyzing our pop culture through a political lens in a way that is daring, incisive, and absolutely hilarious. By the time we arrive at the play's grand, communal finale, it's impossible not to be hooked into this world of grand anti-capitalist analysis and George Lucas apologia. You'll never watch a Star Wars film the same way again, and for the better!

Andy’s play is wildly intellectual, nerdy, fully himself and jam packed with heart. I had so much fun reading this piece and you can tell this writer has alot of exciting promise and big ideas about what theater can be.

Don't know why it has taken me this long to read this play but it came at just the right time in my life. Political theatre really gets a bad rap. It's viewed as didactic or dry. That's why we need a play like this one. Never has international economics been so fascinating and graspable to me. This play is also a brilliant allegory about the stories we long to tell as artists and how that can be altered by our patrons. So much potential for stage magic here. Can't wait to see this on stage.

A hilarious, politically charged, anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist love letter to that series set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. By the end of the play you’ll leave educated, politically motivated, and wildly entertained. You will certainly never think about Jar-Jar the same way again...

The Trade Federation is a joyous celebration of the most boring, asinine parts of some of the most widely hated films ever made. At the exact same time, it's also a cutting critique of global capitalism, the IMF, and contemporary colonialism. It also has one of the only moments of audience participation I have ever enjoyed in a theater.