←Recommendations of This Year

You can pretty much guarantee when the apocalypse is in full swing there will be employers complaining about “quiet quitting.” This play is both hilarious and depressing. An impressive feat. Greg Lam gives us an unadulterated look at our all to certain fates.

2020- what a year! GREG LAM brings the unique chaos of the year to the mundane as zombies become the latest nightmare for the average worker. A great read - would be fabulous on stage.

Fantastic satire about the corporate workplace, life in Southern California, and the never-ending onslaught of bad news!

With "This Year," Greg Lam stages -- or perhaps, casts on our screens -- a cutting, biting satire about what increasingly feels like the end of the world. As the characters wonder what fresh hell awaits them on their morning commute, readers and audience members can't help but laugh, even if they wish they could just scream about it. Excellent play for zoom and digital formats, could probably work on stage as well.

Talk about occupational hazard! Great premise and theme - a zombie apocalypse traffic jam near L.A. seems a logical and believable extension of wildfires and plague and everything else going on. In THIS YEAR the two characters, Employee and Boss, speak by phone in a kind of spectacular deadpan, mostly numb to it all, business as usual. Greg Lam makes me wonder how locked in we all are in our various jobs and laugh at the bureaucratic ridiculousness of it all. Wonderful sense of humor. Would love to see THIS YEAR staged before it's too late for us.

Saw this one online at Tiny Theatre, and what fun! Love that this is a comedy that blends workplace, zombie, and traffic humor all into one. And it's hard to fight the logic that at some point in 2020-2021, zombies really did seem like the next logical progression. This is a really clever, tight play.

Oh my gosh. This is officially one of my favorite ten minute Zoom plays AND one of my favorite plays about 2020. Greg Lam takes 2020 and heightens it to what feels like a very obvious conclusion. This comedy is dark and wonderful. It deserves all the productions.

Traffic on the Los Angeles freeway is bad enough ANYWAY, but this... smh...

Lam creates a pitch-perfect unflappable Angelino ennui in the face of Yet Another Crisis getting in the way of the morning commute. Freakin' 2020...

The easy rapport masks a modest disingenuousness in the boss/employee dynamic adding pragmatic concerns to the ongoing cataclysm. A perfect piece for actors who don't have to push it to be funny, THIS YEAR has got them covered! Audiences will feel like they're stuck in traffic with them in the BEST way.
And hey things could be worse. Just watch!

Even though the world is ending, some of us still have work to do. Greg Lam takes this conceit and runs with it in a very funny 10-minute play that puts all of the horrors of the past year into a comic perspective and adds new twists. "This Year" is a brilliant satire of our world and the meaningless work we do to get through each day.

There's a darkness, even a privilege, to apathy, but sometimes we have to take refuge in it to avoid breaking. Lam's play brings cathartic hilarity to that idea, giving us a 2020 in which one more very unique thing happens, and a pair of characters who react with a "yeah, I guess this might as well happen. I should probably adjust accordingly." Casually horrific and funny as hell, this is easily the best satire of the previous year I've seen. Well done.