Cling to Me Like Ivy

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Cling to Me Like Ivy is a 2010 play by playwright Samantha Ellis staged at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 11 February 2010{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/|title=What's On|website=www.birmingham-rep.co.uk|access-date=Sep 21, 2019}} directed by Sarah Esdaile. It was inspired{{cite news|last=Nathan|first=John|title=Samantha Ellis: A chance remark about hair extensions caused a storm among Orthodox women and provided a playwright with the perfect story|work=The Jewish Chronicle|date=11 February 2010|url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/27022/interview-samantha-ellis|access-date=2012-02-18}} by a chance remark by Victoria Beckham which sparked a crisis in the Orthodox Jewish community over the wigs worn by married women.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/nyregion/rabbis-rules-and-indian-wigs-stir-crisis-in-orthodox-brooklyn.html | work=The New York Times | first=Daniel J. | last=Wakin | title=Rabbis' Rules and Indian Wigs Stir Crisis in Orthodox Brooklyn | date=14 May 2004}} The cast was: Gethin Anthony, Amanda Boxer, Mona Goodwin, David Hartley, Edward Halsted and Emily Holt. It was published by Nick Hern Books.http://nickhernbooks.co.uk/index.cfm?nid=025E2296-E2B2-4246-8FA9-9E54784CFB37&isbn=9781848420656&sr{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Guardian called it "funny, sad and compassionate...that genuinely rare beast, a popular comedy with heart, brains and the stomach to make some difficult choices".{{cite news|last=Gardner|first=Lyn|title=Cling to Me Like Ivy|work=The Guardian (London)|date=17 February 2010|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/feb/17/cling-to-me-like-ivy|access-date=2012-02-18}}