Mikvah Girls

by Emmy Weissman

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...

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Liv Fassanella: Mikvah Girls by Emmy Weissman

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A bittersweet love story about girlhood, taking what you want from life, and being there for each other (and I little bit of fan-fiction fantasy.) I love these characters and this setting, and had a great time reading!

A bittersweet love story about girlhood, taking what you want from life, and being there for each other (and I little bit of fan-fiction fantasy.) I love these characters and this setting, and had a great time reading!

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Heather Helinsky: Mikvah Girls by Emmy Weissman

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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.

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.

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Character Information

Chava

Character Age

23

Character Race/Ethnic Identity

Any / Jewish

Character Gender Identity

a woman
Aviva

Character Age

19

Character Race/Ethnic Identity

Any / Jewish

Character Gender Identity

a woman
Rachel

Character Age

23

Character Race/Ethnic Identity

Any / Jewish

Character Gender Identity

a woman
Bruce Springsteen

Character Age

Any age

Character Race/Ethnic Identity

Any Race or ethnicity

Character Gender Identity

All

Development History

Type Residency, Organization Art House Productions, Year 2023
Type Reading, Organization Breaking and Entering Theatre Company, Year 2023

Production History

Type Workshop, Organization Art House Productions, Year 2023
Type Workshop, Organization Breaking and Entering Theatre Co, Year 2023