6/8/2023 0 Comments Indecent play![]() ![]() ![]() In 1923, the cast and producer of “God of Vengeance’’ were arrested and subsequently convicted on obscenity charges. It’s no slight to Vogel’s sharply etched characterizations and resonant dialogue to say that the story of “Indecent’’ is most expressively told through stage pictures that amount to a kind of visual poetry (a joyful embrace by the lovers during a rainfall, hands opening to release clouds of sand that represent both dust and ash), bodies in motion (the wonderfully fluid choreography is by David Dorfman), and faces that are inscribed with the variegated facets of human emotion and experience. Written by Paula Vogel and directed by Rebecca Taichman - the term “dream team’’ doesn’t seem out of place - “Indecent’’ is a richly textured work whose galvanizing event is a real-life Broadway production that was whipsawed by the forces of censorship in the 1920s because it included a lesbian relationship. Seldom has theater’s soul-nourishing quality, its power to endure and to help us endure across the generations, been more stirringly evoked than in the gravely beautiful, quietly moving, altogether exquisite “Indecent.’’ ![]()
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