So the seed of this play really began when I started dating my now-husband. Yeah, there’s a husband, there’s a son, but they’re mentioned in passing, much the same way that, in the Torah, women are mentioned very briefly and then they’re dead, and they had seven kids or whatever. The number of women who have read this play and said, “I went through this. But I was also interviewing women who are Orthodox with different relationships to it, understanding their lived experiences. The Matriarchs runs September 10-28, 2025 at Theaterlab (357 West 36th St., 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10018).