Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam

DEAR JESSY, DEAR MIRIAM

Staged Reading
By Jessica Chapnik Kahn and Miriam Hechtman

Two thirteen-year old-girls meet beside the pinball machines at Bondi’s Hakoah Club in 1989 and begin exchanging letters between Sydney and Melbourne. Through adolescence, heartbreak and exploring their Jewish identities, the pair uncover a deep kindred bond.

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. Funny, tender and sharply observed, the work traces parallel lives, devoted friendship and the curious timing of connection.

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Miriam Hechtman - Co-writer
Writer, producer and arts curator. Founder and creative director of Poetica, a live poetry, music and arts initiative, and editor of The Alphabet of Women. Her work brings together artists across page, performance and gathering.
Jessica Chapnik Kahn - Co-writer
Argentinian-Australian writer, singer-songwriter and actor. Her work spans performance, music and literature, including two albums released under the moniker Appleonia and the poetry collection MADRE. Recent work includes The Fire Always Says Yes, which premiered at Sydney Opera House.