←Recommendations of The Divorce Reunion

Complications. Reconnection. Evolution. A great script that brings together a pair of intriguing characters!

Lovely two-hander exploring two estranged adult half-siblings and their hesitant and painful process of learning to heal and grow up. Heyman writes with so much compassion toward his characters while also exposing their very human flaws, and consequently his characters feel realistic and relatable. The tentative hope at the play's end is also lovely and well done. Audiences everywhere will enjoy will enjoy this play.

11.23.25 - Why are family relationships the hardest minefields to navigate? And yet, they are the ones we are most likely to try crossing every time. Sam Heyman gets this, as he shows us 2 half-siblings and frenemies on opposite sides of their parents messy divorce who are making the attempt. And we are lucky they are. This entertaining look at family bonds and the bridges they can create when we put in the work is both funny and heart-breakingly bittersweet. The characters ring perfectly true.

Blended families come with joy and complications. FORMERLY blended families come with so much more. Heyman takes a layered holiday prompt and gives it the depth and heart needed to make audiences reflect on their own situations.

Fundamental physics states that going back in time is not possible: time moves in only one direction. But when it comes to family, that theory is recalculated because this reunion between half-siblings resets the clock to when they were much younger and their rivalry for parental attention and love is the starting point: we are always adolescent in their eyes. This seemingly ordinary reunion is well layered, and we are drawn in as we watch them grow up again.

There is family that we choose, and there is family that is thrust upon us. This lovely short play shows us what happens when the latter starts to become the former. Shared trauma has bonded Liam and Diana, although it takes them a little while to figure that out. The sibling banter between the two is both entertaining and believable. A terrific short play from Sam.

The shape of family is so different for people. And to witness the cracks and scars developed over years starting to heal between these half-siblings is absolutely engaging and quietly beautiful. Children have little control over their lives and decisions are made for them, but Diana and Liam are just realizing in their 30s that they are in control of their family dynamics now.