Review: "Hidden": It Begins with Your Family but Soon It Comes Round to Your Soul
Hidden Written and directed by Marc Weiner Presented by The Playwrights’ Gate at the Chain Theatre 312 W. 36th Street, 4th Floor, Manhattan, NYC May 11th-May 28th, 2023 Eileen Sugameli, Mark Friedlander, and Sean Edward Evans in Hidden . Photo by Shraya Kag Collective memory can be a pernicious thing in contemporary America. But to be a Jewish American has always meant living with a complex and inescapable relationship to the near past: to be like other Americans, only with the unique burden of bearing witness to the existential horrors of modern, systemic extermination. As the events of the Holocaust and the Vietnam War retreat further and further from contemporary American memory, the Jewish American voice has a unique capacity to continue to give voice to these events, to serve as a repository for an unyielding and uncompromising collective memory and in doing so, remind all of us of our moral obligation to, in fact, never forget. Marc Weiner’s is one such voice. Weiner's new pl...