Reviews on “About David”
“"...a very powerful play here about what to do with a mentally challenged son, a sibling who at the age of 27 is about to be released from his hospice care to return home because his recently deceased mother did not follow through… to ensure that the son would be taken care of properly as she secretly wanted his sisters to do just that."
—Talk Entertainment Review by
Oscar E. Moore
“Writer/Director Marc Weiner confronts the complex issues of love, loyalty, guilt and fear in the complex of siblings caring for siblings. Issues that are relevant not only to mental, but also physical disabilities. Weiner bravely explores these issues at a time in our social history when they have been ignored for too long.”
— Madelon Rosenfeld, Jurist Productions
"Your play...gives a palpable sense of how it is that the past, bits and torn shreds of people in and out of the room, fold and braid through the moment's conflicts and how we bargain and flee and grandstand and joke. It's beautifully done...I love the way David momentarily will become articulate. I have a strong sense of the mother's depth of need. Bravo.”
— Craig Lucas, Playwright
Reviews on “Hidden”
“The turmoil of refugee family life following World War II---the traumas of escaping genocide, identifying the dead, and hunting for the missing---lingers until today. Mark Weiner’s compelling drama Hidden confronts the pain of that separation and the feelings of abandonment, loss, anger, and confusion that persist, even when those separated are reunited. Weiner’s deft direction underscores the long, arduous struggle of one man, Jacob Epstein (Michael Gnat), to find his orphaned niece and nephews, and yet only happenstance brings him closer to his goal."
—Off off Online Review by Rachel Kovacs
“This play is well-written, directed, and acted even with the limitations of the small theater. It is a thought-provoking exploration of a challenging subject. It is highly recommended to anyone interested in experiencing good theater with dramatic impact..”
— Theater Scene Review by Scotty Bennet
“Hidden offers us a path for recovering the past, albeit one that requires leaps of interpersonal love. The things that are hidden – personal and historical – are the things that tie us together, linking us as humans across oceans and generations. These greater, loftier reconciliations begin with love, as Weiner and his cast poignantly remind us.”
— Thinking Theatre Review by Noah Simon Jampol