“ And now I’ve read the first of Weaver’s beach boy plays, and this is perhaps the most poetic and magically ambiguous of them all. While all three perfectly capture an adolescent moment of change, this one has a slight undertow of menace which adds an even more realistic — and alluring — tone to these tales of sexual awakening. Beautiful. ”

“ Oh, those last moments of innocence and that inevitable moment when one friend matures faster than the other...

Weaver captures all the charm, wonder, bravado, and heartache of that moment when everything irrevocably changes in this beautiful little masterpiece, at once as joyful and sad as it is in life. ”

“ While reading this unsettling play, I was reminded of the Frank Loesser song “Inchworm,” from the movie “Hans Christian Andersen.” In the song, Andersen sings a haunting refrain encouraging an inchworm to stop and think how beautiful marigolds are while in the background we hear students monotonously intoning an arithmetic lesson. Both Loesser’s song and Omorotionmwan’s play are lyrical pleas for the acceptance and beauty of non-conformity, with Omorotionmwan adding layers of fear and loss that make this play a devastating cautionary tale for our times. ”

“ A play in which the metaphor is the meaning, Stephen Kaplan’s “A Real Boy” stuns with its inventive theatricality, its well-placed humor, and particularly with its depth of feeling. A beautifully written, provocative, and haunting work of art. ”