Performance: Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam

Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam is a funny, moving and deeply relatable theatrical journey into the lives of two Jewish girls growing up in Sydney and Melbourne in the 90s. After a chance meeting, the girls become pen pals, and through their letters explore crushes, friendship, periods, faith, family secrets, God and all the shenanigans in between.

Performed as a live dramatic reading, Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam imagines the friendship Jessica Chapnik Kahn and Miriam Hechtman might have shared had they met as teenagers, decades before encountering each other as adults. Blending humour, vulnerability and a healthy dose of teen angst, the show explores what it means to grow up Jewish in a complicated world.

Image: Jessica Chapnik Kahn and Miriam Hechtman, courtesy of the creators.