←Recommendations of Last Ship to Proxima Centauri

What I really like about this one is how it refuses to give easy solutions. Sci-fi that uses its genre to tackle perceptions, filled with compelling detail. Every so often it just hit me with a line that made me rethink everything that came before it.

Amazing play! A brilliant critique of colonialism, white supremacy, and appropriation in the form of a sci-fi adventure. Funny, exciting, and vicious in its commentary on 2020. Would be such an incredible opportunity for designers and director.

Greg Lam takes a stab at colonialism, appropriation, entitlement, and American television with rapier sharp wit and precision in this darkly funny, wildly political science-fiction comedy, and I loved every word of it. Now I'd love to see it staged.

Just saw a Zoom reading of this fresh and gripping play and it was fantastic. Like the best science fiction stories, it shines a light on where we are now and how we got here. With a skewering wit and a confident sense of world history, Lam asks important questions and avoids easy answers. Well deserving of multiple productions.

Lam goes light-years beyond many playwrights tackling issues of race, American colonialism and identity. Loved it!

A fun sci-fi satire that takes on a whole host of issues, from colonialism to the refugee crisis, from police shootings to gun safety. All of it is handled with a sharp wit and a willingness to show the limitations of all points of view. I can't help but really enjoy the running joke that in this future society the only things worth retaining from American culture are movies and TV shows. Nicely done!

I saw a reading of this play at Fresh Ink Theatre's Inkspot Festival in Boston. It's terrific, a funny, thought-provoking and, at times, unsettling play that uses science fiction to make a compelling comment on colonialism, American hubris, and the danger of cultures that demonize the "other."

Greg Lam has an uncanny ability to create and follow a great science-fiction premise that ends up reflecting on our inner and outer lives in powerful ways. This play is at times hilarious, at times touching, at times disturbing, and it moves past the satirical premise to dig deep into questions of colonialism, of how insularity in cultures leads to oppression--all while mixing tones as effectively as it mixes languages.

A thoroughly engrossing piece! Like all great science fiction, it tackles head on contemporary issues--here we are treated to a fascinating exploration of citizenship, immigration, nationalism, remnants of colonialism, and prejudice. The characters are nuanced and recognizable, and the world building natural and fully realized. Lam's clever sense of humor brings welcome moments of levity to some gutting truths and intense conversations about difference and intolerance that our contemporary world must reconcile ourselves with.

Simply one of the best things I've read this year. This play makes full use of the power of science fiction to cleverly turn the immigration debate upside down, thus revealing some uncomfortable truths about the US and how we are perceived in the world. The writing is excellent, fast-paced, with strong characters whose dilemma kept me turning pages. I meant to read this slowly over time but ended up devouring it in a single setting. The ending left me breathless. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, this play is true tour de force!