Indecent, a deeply moving play with music, inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture and by others as an act of traitorous libel.

It is a delicately told tale of the sexual awakening of a young girl under the tutelage of her uncle. By Paula Vogel Directed by Kelsey Leigh Ervi. Expand (Kathleen Kelly) By Bennett Campbell Ferguson Februat. Vogel’s Indecent resurrects Sholem Asch’s great play, and celebrates the love, magic, and hope of the theatre even in the face of the greatest adversities. Paula Vogels How I Learned to Drive, one of the most honored new American plays, is the winner of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle awards. Paula Vogel’s 2015 play persuasively argues that God of Vengeance is more than the sum of its silliest moments. But when an English-translation was attempted on Broadway, the play-featuring the first kiss between women on a Broadway stage-proved too scandalous for the general public, and the entire cast was arrested and charged with obscenity. Nevertheless, it achieved great success on the stages of Europe and in the Yiddish theatre scene of downtown New York City. The story-about the daughter of a brothel owner who falls in love with one of her father’s prostitutes-was polarizing even at its first readings, with many of Asch’s fellows arising him to burn it. A small theatre company tells the story of the play from its inception in Poland in 1907. Paula Vogel’s Indecent tells the tumultuous tale of another play, Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance. Indecent by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel tells the story of Sholem Asch’s controversial play, The God of Vengeance, and the passionate artists who risked everything to bring it to the stage.

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