Indecent: A play that deals with love and hate in the past and in our time.
Boston is privileged to welcome Indecent, Paula Vogel’s and Rebecca Taichman’s adaptation of Sholem Asch’s 1907 God of Vengeance (Got fun nekome) which became the first play to be banned on Broadway for sexual impropriety. Asch, a well-educated Polish Jew was interested in broadening Yiddish literature so that it dealt with the problems, developments, and realities of the period. His works became popular and were translated into numerous European languages. He was particularly proud when the esteemed German-Jewish director Max Reinhardt mounted the first production of God of Vengeance with the renowned actor Rudolph Schildkraut as the male lead, Yankel Chapchovich, known as the “Uncle” who earns his living running a brothel in the basement of his house. …