Cling To Me Like Ivy

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

Rivka wants the perfect Orthodox wedding. With two weeks to go, she has the man, the dress – and the wig. But when doubt is cast on her wig, everything starts to unravel. Rivka finds herself far from home, up a tree and in the midst of an anti-road protest, not knowing whether she’ll be able to go back to where she came from… Or even if she wants to. 

Samantha Ellis' play Cling To Me Like Ivy was inspired by a chance remark by Victoria Beckham in 2004 which sparked a crisis within the Orthodox Jewish community about the wigs worn by married women.

The play was first performed at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in February 2010, followed by a UK tour.

'That genuinely rare beast, a popular comedy with heart, brains and the stomach to make some difficult choices'— Guardian

“"that genuinely rare beast, a popular comedy with heart, brains and the stomach to make some difficult choices"--Guardian”

'That genuinely rare beast, a popular comedy with heart, brains and the stomach to make some difficult choices'

Samantha Ellis is a writer whose plays include How to Date a Feminist (Arcola and tour); Operation Magic Carpet (Polka); Cling To Me Like Ivy (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/tour); Starlore For Beginners and Other Plays, Patching Havoc (Theatre503); This Time I Win (Agent 160/Cardiff Millennium Centre); The Thousand and Second Night (LAMDA); A Sudden Visitation of Calamity (Menagerie); Startle Response (Young Vic Workshop); Martin's Wedding (Blind Summit/BAC); Use Me As Your Cardigan (Jackson's Lane); Feel the Plastic (Camden People's Theatre); The Candy Jar (Edinburgh Fringe; runner-up in NSDF's International Student Drama Competition).She is also the author of the non-fiction book How to Be a Heroine (published by Chatto & Windus).

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