Washington Post - Recommended
"...The drama by the British-Israeli writer, presented for the first time in English, is riddled with plot mechanics far too obvious: Ladies, don't leave that pool of water unattended! (A facet of set designer Kinereth Kisch's excellent interior of the mikveh, the pool is made to shimmer in the light behind a scrim.) And in the end, eager to tie things up, the dramatist hurries these women of wildly divergent opinions into a chorus of unconvincing solidarity."
Washington Examiner - Highly Recommended
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Galron excels in many areas in this play, especially in her knack for making the comic coexist with the serious. But the real appeal of this "Mikveh" is the way in which Galron's original premise transcends itself and eight unrelated women become a community capable of doing something that none of them could accomplish individually."
MetroWeekly - Recommended
"...There is something about Hadar Galron's Mikveh that seems familiar. This would not seem so strange were it not for the fact that Theater J's production is actually the English language, world premiere of the Israeli writer's play. Were it not for the fact that it's not every day (at least not in Washington) where you open a program to be informed – where the ''Time'' of the play is listed – that it is Rosh Chodesh, the first day of the new month in the lunar Jewish calendar. Or that the year is 5764."
WeLoveDC - Recommended
"...Mikveh, playing now through June 5 in its English language world premiere at Theater J, is not really a play about religion, though it takes place in the confines of an orthodox community in Israel. Rather, it’s a play about the moral battle between action and inaction. It also highlights how women’s territorial natures cripple them – as they police themselves from within, they are being policed by others from without. Their inability to rise above petty jealousies can be detrimental, sometimes to the extreme."
Washington City Paper - Somewhat Recommended
"...It’s easy enough to understand why the earnest social critique offered in Mikveh, tiptoeing carefully on a tightrope between religious and secular points of view, might find a public in Israel; less clear is what it has to offer mainstream audiences at Theater J. In an auditorium where almost no one wears a head scarf, and many of the men would likely call themselves feminists, the play’s balancing act smacks less of evenhandedness than of a desperate attempt not to offend."
Washington Jewish Week - Recommended
"...Theater J's latest production -- part of the Voices of a Changing Middle East: Women's Voices festival -- pays quiet homage to the late Wasserstein in its own moving bow and throughout by giving voice to an often silent subset of Jewish women."
DCTheatreScene - Recommended
Shirley Serotsky’s cast gives the play every chance to succeed, and the fact that it does, on balance, is hugely due to the performances. Of course, no play which features the immensely gifted Marshall can go far wrong. Here she plays a character immediately recognizable – the very capable functionary, called upon to make decisions beyond her usual scope – by hitting all the grace notes.
