INDECENT
Evening Show Play – Blackbox Theatre
By Paula Vogel
Directed by Stephanie Manning
INDECENT, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is a deeply moving play 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. INDECENT charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it.
“This powerful drama by Paula Vogel sheds light on a time when history, Jewish culture and the depiction of lesbian love explosively intersected.” —NY Times.
“…[a] riveting backstage drama…” —The New Yorker
Produced through special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service.
CAST LIST
LEMML, THE STAGE MANAGER – Eli Bailit
CHANA, THE INGENUE – Caitlyn Luria
AVRAM, THE INGENUE – Alexander Serino
HALINA, THE MIDDLE – Liana Perlman
MENDEL, THE MIDDLE – Ben Litvak-Hinenzon
VERA, THE FIRST ELDER (Sarah, Esther Stockton, Madje Asch, and others) – Anika Reichelt
GOLDE, THE SECOND ELDER (Mrs. Peretz, Dr. Hornig, Immigrant, and others) – Sophia Keohane
OTTO, THE ELDER (Yekel, Rudolph Schildkraut, Immigrant, Bartender, Judge McIntyre ) – Eli Morton
MORIZ GODOWSKY, ACCORDION- Brendan Qi
NELLY FRIEDMAN, VIOLIN – Juliette Bloom
MAYER BALSAM, CLARINET (Mr. Petetz, Scholem Asch) – Brandon Sherman
