5/11/2023 0 Comments Indecent by Paula Vogel![]() That rocky journey ultimately inspired Indecent, Vogel’s play about the play, which opened on Broadway in 2017 and now reaches London. And then became thoroughly obsessed by the play and the story of what happened to it.” “Alisa Solomon’s book Re-Dressing the Canon mentioned God of Vengeance and I was floored by it. ![]() ![]() “I was looking for a play to direct,” says Rebecca Taichman. Some years later, the play ambushed another sparky student, this time at Yale. “‘A young married man wrote this?!’ A young married man had shown me the beauty of my love for other women.” “I talked out loud in the library stacks,” Vogel remembers. Its audacious young author, Sholem Asch, set his tragedy in a brothel, where the owner’s daughter begins a same-sex relationship with a prostitute – their rain-drenched love scene was compared to Romeo and Juliet’s balcony. God of Vengeance (Got Fun Nekome) was a sensation from its Berlin premiere in 1907, sweeping Europe and crossing the Atlantic. In large part, this was the shock of recognition. I ran to the library, and it stunned me.” ![]() ![]() “A professor looked at me in the first week at Cornell University – I was dressing a certain way, I think – and said, I think there’s a play with your name on it. For God of Vengeance, a neglected classic of Yiddish theatre, one of those readers was American playwright Paula Vogel. B ooks can lurk for decades on a library shelf, hugging their incendiary potential close until the right readers happen along. ![]()
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