His daughter, however, falls in love with one of the prostitutes (Gisela Chipe, in a rich, delicate performance).
Filled with guilt over his own transgressions, brothel owner Yekel seeks to make amends with God and the Jewish community by raising a chaste and pious daughter (an ethereal Miriam Schwartz). God of Vengeance tells the story of a middle-aged Jewish couple who manage a brothel. Until Indecent, God of Vengeance was remembered – if it was remembered at all – for being “the first Broadway play to feature a lesbian kiss”… and for its being shut down shortly after its opening in 1923 on charges of obscenity, with the arrest of its producer and entire cast. The play is Sholem Asch’s 1906 Yiddish-language drama, God of Vengeance. The plot of Indecent spans from 1906 to the mid-1950s. “I can’t remember how it ends,” he says, but he knows how it begins. He will be our “stage manager for the night”, and he has story to tell us, a story about a play. One man comes downstage, “Lemml” or “Lou” (Ben Cherry). They reach into their pockets and bring out fistfuls of Ashes that they let drop on the floor. Indecent begins with an opening tableau in which we see a troupe of Jewish actors in their overcoats, standing in a long line. Indecent is one of the most powerful plays I’ve seen on the Guthrie stage. A “troupe” of Yiddish theatre players in the Guthrie Theater production of Paula Vogel’s play Indecent, directed by Wendy C.
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