11/28/2024. AFIKOMAN is a beautiful and heartfelt play about a Jewish family at Passover. Playwright Sam Heyman has written with care and understanding about the holiday and has brought to life smart, honest characters. The ending is sweet and makes you feel all the feels. Oh, and a Manischewitz hangover sounds like literally the worst thing ever!

A beautiful play exploring family ties, generational conflicts and the journey toward healing and acceptance. Centering two adult brothers with lingering trauma in their past, who've gathered at the home of one for a Passover Seder, Heyman makes his characters and their struggles feel so real that it's startling to remember after reading that they're characters and not actual living humans. With a lovely and hopeful ending, this would make a wonderful addition to any one-act festival.

Projections are both what we see before us and what we set in front of our faces, both what we see others as and what we intend for ourselves. It is not always a choice to do so, but the standard bearings we recognize push themselves before intention and understanding, much as the trouble Heyman's characters find themselves in here.

Perhaps in this way it's important that we hide our projections from ourselves so that we may find the truth in them and overcome what makes us insecure, perhaps find it in Afikoman.