Indecent, a deeply moving, complex and exquisitely directed production that reveals the enormous talent of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal
Indecent , written by Paula Vogel, was first produced at the Yale repertory theatre in 2015. This present show is directed by Lisa Rubin, artistic and executive Director of the Segal Centre in Montreal. To be very clear, Indecent is not the staging of Sholem Asch’s play God of Vengeance written in 1906 and that first appeared on Broadway in 1923. This is the story of the difficult journey of a classic work of Yiddish theatre called God of Vengeance (Got fun Nekome) , and the process it went through from its creation pre World War I to the present. What Paula Vogel gives us is a play within a play, where 10 excellent actors, dancers and three musicians, all part of the Segal Arts Centre, perform 47 characters including the ones from the original play plus all the people involved in various stagings around the world as the actors grow older as well as the administrative population in Europe and America who influenced positively and negatively the difficult journey of Asch’s play. …