Then add in the play’s compassionate understanding of the powerlessness of women in that time and place - Asch is a young married man, in a very early work, writing the most astonishing love story between two women - and it makes a pretty compelling play to read and perform. That’s a very hard thing for a man to do, especially in a time of burgeoning anti-Semitism. In 1907, Sholem Asch was brave enough to write that Jews are no different than Catholics or Buddhists or people of any religion, in terms of having people in the tribe who may sell religion for a profit, or who are hypocrites. I read Sholem Asch’s play GOD OF VENGEANCE when I was 23 years old, and I was astonished by it. Literary Associate Miriam Weiner recently spoke with Paula about the reception of GOD OF VENGEANCE in Europe and New York, the role of music in her work and process, and her fruitful five-year creative collaboration with Rebecca Taichman. INDECENT charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it. INDECENT is 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. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel returns to The Vineyard with her new play, INDECENT, co-created with director Rebecca Taichman.
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