Dunya Reviews

THE RETURN

HANNA EADY & EDWARD MAST / DIRECTED BY HANNA EADY

San Francisco, CA - Golden Thread Productions, August 7 – 24, 2025

  • “‘The Return’ investigates repression & war at Golden Thread.”

    Theatrius, by Lynne Stevens, August 16, 2025

  • “Drama Masks: a ping-ponging in the mind–and a tennis match of wits,”

    48 Hills, by Charles Lewis III, August 13, 2025 

  • “Golden Thread Productions’ ‘Return’ a satisfying, intense story about love and loss."

    QuBay City News, by Jean Schiffman, August 12, 2025

  • “Review: ‘The Return,’ at the Garret at ACT’s Toni Rembe Theatre | KPFA

    By Richard Wolinsky, KPFA 94.1 FM, August 12, 2025 

  • “‘The Return’ asks whether an Israeli and a Palestinian can rewrite their script,”

    San Francisco Chronicle, by Lily Janiak, August 11, 2025

  • "For two Palestinian artists, making S.F. theater is resistance."

    San Francisco Chronicle, by Lily Janiak, July 30, 2025 

    *Pre-production interviews with playwright Hanna Eady and writer/performer Hend Ayoub about their respective plays.

THE RETURN

BY HANNA EADY & EDWARD MAST / DIRECTED BY HANNA EADY

Seattle, WA - Dunya Productions, October 26 – December 3, 2024

Drama in the Hood, by J. Weijin-Li, October 30, 2023

"The Return: A Play About Palestine,"

"'The Return', A Palestinian Story Onstage, Gets an Extended Run,"

South Seattle Emerald, by Agueda Pacheco Flores, November 23, 2023

THE RETURN

BY HANNA EADY & EDWARD MAST / DIRECTED BY HANNA EADY

Boston & Gloucester, MA - Israeli Stage - April - July, 2019

  • “Israeli Stage’s The Return is a potent mix of the personal and the political,”

    By Carolyn Clay, April 30, 2019

  • “In Israeli Stage’s The Return, an encounter resounding with echoes from the past,”

    The Boston Globe, by Don Aucoin, May 8, 2019

  • “Love and Politics: ‘The Return’: A Superb Finale for Israeli Stage,”

    Theater Mirror, by Mike Hoban, July 12, 2019

THE RETURN

BY HANNA EADY & EDWARD MAST / DIRECTED BY HANNA EADY

Washington, DC - Mosaic Theater Group, June 7 – July 2, 2017

The Washington Post, June 13, 2017, by Nelson Pressley

"An unsettled Israeli-Palestinian relationship in 'The Return,"

DC Theatre Scene, June 13, 2017, by Tim Treanor

"The Return: A Palestinian pays the price for peace,"

THE MULBERRY TREE

BY HANNA EADY & EDWARD MAST / DIRECTED BY HANNA EADY

New York, NY - LaMaMa, October 10-20, 2024  & January 16-19, 2025

Jim Nicola, Founder, New York Theater Workshop

“Stunning, absolutely necessary theater.”

New York Weekly, October 4, 2024, by James Manley

"The Mulberry Tree: A Tale of Friendship, Betrayal, and Hope in 1948 Palestine,"

Garden State Journal, October 14, 2024, by GSJ Staff

"A Tapestry of Loyalty and Loss: Review of The Mulberry Tree,"

“If the war is going to stop us from creating and putting (on) this kind of important work, then we would never do theater. There’s always a war.”

Hanna Eady