![]() ![]() Theater in particular – in America and around the world – has a kind of immediacy and power to reach people on a deeper level.Īccording to John H. ![]() From theater to music, journalism to film, photography to other visual arts, art forms and artistic expressions have stirred people to action, whether that action takes of the form of activism or protest. Throughout history, art has been a subject of controversy, often leading to censorship. Indecent gives audiences a look at how God of Vengeance came to tour Europe and eventually made its way to America and Broadway, a look behind-the-scenes at the cast and crew in the original production, and the eventual scandal surrounding the cast being arrested and tried on the grounds of obscenity.Ĭensorship is a dominant theme in Indecent and the play raises many questions for its audiences to ponder: Should a playwright ever censor themselves? Should producers have the right to censor work that isn’t theirs? Who has the right to censor someone else’s art? ![]() Paula Vogel’s Indecent follows the trajectory of the play God of Vengeance, written in 1906, which features a brothel owner and his daughter who falls in love with one of the brothel’s prostitutes. ![]()
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