Mikvah Girls

Mikvah Girls is the story of two orthodox Jewish women who are supposed to be performing a monthly cleansing ritual at a mikvah. Instead, they actually use this time to hold meetings of their two-person Bruce Springsteen fan club. Together they grapple with the effects their religion has on their sexuality, desires, hopes, and dreams, all while obsessing over the Boss and dreaming of a better world they could build together.
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Mikvah Girls

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  • Heather Helinsky:
    17 Mar. 2024
    This play explores the friendship of two young women from a community that silences women, and gives them a safe space to be light, funny, passionate fangirls and dramatizes their desire for deep love and connection. The play is a fresh take and has a bubbly, magical theatricality as they express their secrets and the sincere ways they connect to their faith. This play is a glimpse. The writer makes me deeply care for them as the narrative moves fluidly from their dreams towards the darker realities they face culturally with their mental health and cycles of patriarchal abuse.

Character Information

  • Rachel
    23,
    Any / Jewish
    ,
    a woman
  • Chava
    23,
    Any / Jewish
    ,
    a woman
  • Bruce Springsteen
    Any age,
    Any Race or ethnicity
    ,
    All
  • Aviva
    19,
    Any / Jewish
    ,
    a woman

Development History

  • Reading
    ,
    Breaking and Entering Theatre Company
    ,
    2023
  • Residency
    ,
    Art House Productions
    ,
    2023

Production History

  • Workshop
    ,
    Art House Productions
    ,
    2023
  • Workshop
    ,
    Breaking and Entering Theatre Co
    ,
    2023