Presented by the Treehouse Collective
Based on the best-selling novel by Ron Hansen.
Adapted by Christina Calvit
Directed by Katie Swimm
Fight choreography by Shira Cahn-Lipman
Featuring: Carla Perrotta, Martha Warren, Michelle Leibowitz, Jaryn Wilcox, Lauren Foster, Grace Duffey, Cayd Barrera, Britt Ambruson, Hannah Young, Amanda Burke, Djessy Kungu, Brian O’Hara

April 3-19, 2026
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont St, Boston, 
Boston, MA 02116

Critique by Kitty Drexel

BOSTON — Mariette in Ecstasy mixes themes from shows like Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler with Miller’s The Crucible (or 2004’s Mandy Moore & Jena Malone vehicle, a satiric take on the evangelical purity movement, Saved!). Treehouse Collective’s production ran through April 19. So if you’re reading this article, and this sounds like your idea of fun, then I’m sorry; you’ve missed your chance. 

In turn-of-the-century upstate New York, Mariette Baptiste (Amanda Burke) enters the convent of the Sisters of the Crucifixion at the ripe, hormonal age of 17. The convent is run by her earthly sister, Reverend Mother Celine (Carla Perrotta). Mariette, like the other young sisters of the convent, is crazy bananas in love with their forever boyfriend, your savior and mine, Jesus of Nazareth. The young nuns dream of subjugating themselves to the Lord – not through years of hard, thankless work as the convent demands. No, they want to perform their subjugation to their holy husband immediately for public approval. None is more zealously devoted than Mariette.  Continue reading →