“Indecent” is more than a play about forbidden love: It’s about theater as a life force.”
– New York Post
Indecent
by Paula Vogel
Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman
TONY AWARD 2017 Best Director
Obie Award 2017
Outer Critics Circle 2017, Outstanding Direction
The Cort Theatre on Broadway
Opened April, 2017
Vineyard Theatre
Opened April, 2016
La Jolla Playhouse
Opened November, 2015
Yale Repertory Theatre
Opened October, 2015
DESIGNERS:
SET: Riccardo Hernandez
COSTUMES: Emily Rebholz
LIGHTS: Christopher Akerlind
SOUND: Matt Hubbs
“A singular achievement…Taichman takes us all over the world on a plain, raised stage powerfully transformed by Riccardo Hernandez’s visual designs, Tal Yarden’s projections and Emily Rebholz’s costumes.”
– Newsday
“Five Stars…Illuminating and heartbreaking…Indecent has the scope of an epic but the intimacy of a chamber piece.”
– Time Out New York
“Critics’ Pick…This superbly realized production, created by Paula Vogel and the director Rebecca Taichman, charts the tumultuous fortunes of “God of Vengeance”…Thanks in no small measure to Ms. Taichman’s sensitive direction and the forceful performances of its cast…It may sound complicated, but as engineered by Ms. Taichman, these transitions are always bell-clear. Despite the complex plot, “Indecent” has been shaped by its creators with unusual finesse, using techniques associated with Brecht.”
– New York Times
“This potent and poetic collaboration between Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman delivers style and substance…“Indecent” begins with an indelible image. Actors stand in a row, arms at their sides. Then sand spills from their sleeves. It’s as if they’re dissolving. A fitting and haunting image for a work about the power of art that sifts through history.”
– New York Daily News
Taichman stages a stunning opening tableau for Indecent that has the troupe literally rising from the ashes, taking the playwright’s name to heart while evoking a sense of mortality (immortality as well)…Adding to the highly theatricalized storytelling are Taichman’s lyrical and image-rich direction, David Dorfman’s mesmerizing choreography and movement, and the atmosphere-setting klezmer music…
– American Theater Magazine
“Here’s a sure bet for the regional theater circuit …. “Indecent,” now playing at Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theater, is also the name Paula Vogel has given the riveting backstage drama she’s written (with director Rebecca Taichman)…Thanks to Taichman’s impressionistic direction and David Dorfman’s stylized choreography, a troupe of long-slumbering Yiddish actors rise from the ashes and stiffly come to life to play their parts in this drama.”
– Variety Magazine
“Taichman (who did her Yale thesis on “Vengeance”) takes us all over the world on a plain, raised stage powerfully transformed by Riccardo Hernandez’s visual designs, Tal Yarden’s projections and Emily Rebholz’s costumes. For all the darkness of the subject, the staging is witty. The historical perspective is vast and knowing. And the lost story of gay love is profound.”
– Newsday
“Taichman deftly combines lyrical imagery, hypnotic choreography by David Dorfman, and atmospheric folk music performed on the bare, wood-planked stage by three klezmer musicians, to recreate a world now lost…Calling to mind the sands of time, the dust of history and even something far more sinister, the sawdust pouring from the sleeves of the cast is also a compelling visual metaphor for the enduring, enriching power of storytelling.”
– Associated Press
“Performed by a company of seven actors and three musicians playing some 40 roles (and eight instruments), it’s a fantastic work of imagination, craft and history, seamlessly interweaving a forgotten play — and the tragic history of that forgotten play — into a spellbinding evening.”
– Deadline Hollywood
“It’s hard to find the words to properly praise Indecent and its co-creators Pulitzer Prize playwright Paula Vogel and Director Rebecca Taichman, except to declare it a brilliantly conceived, superbly written, imaginatively staged, exquisitely performed, bi-lingual magnum opus with an intricate, convoluted plot in which six exceptional actors slither between time past and time present, assuming 40 different personally and professionally linked characters. To sum it up: Indecent is a factually accurate, intriguing, intimate, heartfelt, and totally unforgettable Tour de Force!”
– Huffington Post
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