The Matriarchs at Theaterlab

It’s Shabbas. And six squabbling teenage girls at a weekly Talmud lesson negotiate snacks, sex, their souls and everything in between. Loosely based on the underwritten women of the Torah, The Matriarchs by Liba Vaynberg charts the journey of six friends as they grow up and out of the orthodoxy. Developed with the Civilians and presented by the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, this is a play about girls, gods, mothers, and other creators. And it’s for anyone and everyone who doesn’t know what to believe in.

Directed by Dina Vovsi. Performed by Rachel Botchan (National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, And Away We Go at the Pearl) , Molly Carden (Amerikin at Primary Stages, Emotional Creature at Signature), Helen Cespedes (Broadway's Cripple of Inishmaan, Fefu & Her Friends at TFANA), Rebecca S’manga Frank (At The Wedding at LCT3), Arielle Goldman (Let's Call Her Patty at LCT3), Anna O’Donoghue (Broadway's Rock'n'Roll), and Frankie Placidi (I'm Repeating Myself at the Brick).

This THEATERLAB PRESENTS production is produced by Anna & Kitty, Inc., with generous support from the Bronx Cultural Visions Fund, ART/NY Creative Opportunity Fund, and the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.