Call 415.677.9596 to buy tickets by phone. Closed NovemClick to see what’s playing now Subscribe to get the best seats for less. Evoking the Jewish experience through traditional songs and dancing, this stirring production will leave you with a deeper appreciation for the art and experiences we often take for granted. Indecent by Paula Vogel - San Francisco Playhouse Official Site September 22 NovemTickets: 15 100 Est. Follow the explosive tale through scandals, war and rewrites as a defiant, dedicated few refused to let it be silenced.Ĭelebrate the Tony Award-nominated play “that deeply touches so much rich emotion about history and the theater, anti-Semitism, homophobia, censorship, world wars, red-baiting and, oh, yes, joyful human passion” ( Newsday). 1 day ago &0183 &32 Police are to be told they must not dismiss indecent exposure as an offence by dirty old men. But when its Broadway debut was deemed “indecent,” it begged the question of who gets to decide what is considered art and what deserves to be censored. Many European productions of the provocative Yiddish story were highly successful in the early 1900s – even with a same-sex romance at its center. Swiftly shut down by the vice squad, its 1923. It mixes dramatic license with historical facts and moves rapidly through time and geography, opening in Warsaw, Poland, in 1907 and concluding in Connecticut in the 1950s. Indecent’s own darting focus doesn’t take time to illustrate such specificsand it might benefit from doing so, because unless your specialism is the history that is so familiar to Vogel and. Created with the director Rebecca Taichman, Indecent is inspired by Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play The God of Vengeance and events surrounding it. Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel tells the emotional true story of Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking play, The God of Vengeance, and the passionate artists who risked everything to share it. Vogel said that Indecent was a love letter to all her students who dare to write incendiary plays, even as she tries to teach them to give pain and discomfort in the right way, not for the. Indecent is Vogel’s representation of how God of Vengeance affected Asch and the cast.

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