"The most interesting aspect of the new premiere at the National Theater in Bucharest is that it starts from an amalgam of contemporary clichés, which we are not used to seeing on our stages, lagging far behind the galloping reality, and transforms them into a brand new, powerful, wide-ranging, and surprising Romanian text; even with intellectual substance – something increasingly difficult to find in Bucharest theaters, which mainly serve remakes and imported commercial theater with a trendy veneer.

(...) David Schwartz uses documentary theater to observe and expose the absurdity of contemporary alternative culture. Not just alternative spiritual and medical therapies, but the whole ethos of "self-improvement," "personal transformation," and "inner work," which in many cases has become a very well-sold trend.

(...) Through family constellations, the show confronts the viewer with their own obsessions, fears, and ambitions, making TNB a place where documentary and fiction meet in an unexpected but memorable way."

Alexandra Ares, Rinocerul Magazine - "Nothing is by chance": Family constellations at NTB. An absolute premiere: original and memorable    

Despite the fact that "Nothing Happens by Chance" is possibly David Schwartz's funniest creation, and the scene in which Mike Bratescu teaches Vic the Maori Haka dance (with the noble aim of helping him find his voice and the ability to transform "Rats" into a veritable curse) is absolutely irresistibly funny, the performance treats family constellations as a subspecies of an entirely capitalist economic domain, which feeds bidirectionally into a supply-demand binomial, with effects in real life that are impossible to combat through derision. The antagonistic position of the skeptical Mia is weak here: the arguments of peer-reviewing scientific methods have the counterarguments of anti-scientific peer-reviewing, allopathic medication does not guarantee a cure in all cases, while holistic treatments offer at least hope, there are physical sufferings of one's own body that Mia herself cannot find an explanation for. Science is weak because it does not always offer salvation or answers, while anti-science offers hope with guarantees. Camelia will find out too late that this hope is a commodity in a profit-centered market, which is offered as long as you pay for it and within the limits of your account funds.

With a cast that works very well together, including physically (there is a collective scene of ecstatic dance—choreographed by Florin Fieroiu—in which the performers' bodies harmonize in an unexpected expression of their own suffering), Nothing Is By Chance is itself a constellation, one about the diversity of societal failures that no one can accept as such.

Iulia Popovici, Observator cultural, Issue no. 1260 – Searching for a life meaning   

"Carefully crafted to maintain a playful tone within the realm of realism, without heavy-handed or caricatural touches that would distract from the underlying issues, the performance has the great quality of understanding people's need to find a common space for support and emotional release, while delicately revealing how this need is monetized by the new gurus, the spiritual facilitators (the costs show that the recipients of the therapies are from the middle class or above). There is also the real danger that this industry can bring through the alternative treatments it offers, without any scientific basis, to classical medicine. Above all, it is a discourse on how we are fascinated by a hilarious but dangerous obscurantism that draws us into a vast war of civilizations. And this at a time when scientific and technological development seems to be reaching previously unimaginable levels. Or is that precisely why?

Oana Stoica, Dilema - The new obscurantism   

"Hats off to the work, effort, and perfectionism of the team that made the script so captivating, from the first lines to the last.

(...) As both the scriptwriter and director, David Schwartz has succeeded in reaching the innermost self of each character and exploring it before the audience's eyes, in its psychological, moral, and spiritual dimensions, as a rational construct, as a socio-cultural one...

(...) Here, in this documentary and deeply human theater, the six characters are all main characters; and each one's life story is equally important and equally carefully investigated.

(...) The ending of the performance has an unusual dramatic intensity, but one that is, as we have seen, extremely carefully and laboriously constructed. Rather than giving your hard-earned money to charlatan "therapists" or voting for lunatics, isn't it better to go to the theater? Nothing is by chance is a memorable, not-to-be-missed performance.

Daniel Cristea-Enache, Liternet - Six Characters in Search of an Author - Nothing is by chance  

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu