Richard Topol, Mimi Lieber, Tom Nelis, Adina Verson, Katrina Lenk, Steven Rattazzi and Max Gordon Moore in Indecent. But she beautifully charts the play from its first, nervous reading, in which only men read the play, through to a staging in an attic in the Lodz Ghetto, and the diminishing of Yiddish theatre. Vogel’s play could have just been about that incident and that period of the play’s history. If that wasn’t controversial enough, it’s a sympathetic portrayal of a lesbian relationship, (Although a key scene was cut for Broadway), and most of the cast were arrested on the grounds of obscenity. A Jewish brothel owner busy a Torah to celebrate his daughter’s wedding to a scholar, but when he discovers his daughter has fallen in love with one of the prostitutes, he destroys the Torah and casts his daughter down into the brothel. Paula Vogel’s extraordinary play charts the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, in particular its first Broadway staging in 1923. Last Updated on 21st March 2020 Paul T Davies reviews Paula Vogel’s play Indecent which is now streaming on BroadwayHD following its acclaimed run on Broadway.
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