![]() As the audience enters the theater, the players, in dun-toned period dress, are lined up in chairs across a mostly bare stage adorned only with stacked suitcases and a looming if muted gold proscenium. ![]() "Indecent" does not so much tell its story as exhume it from what Suzan-Lori Parks dubbed The Great Hole of History. That 2017 Broadway production has been gorgeously, grittily remounted for the Huntington Theatre Company ( at the Huntington Avenue Theatre through May 25), where it proves to be a lively, fluid piece of stagecraft encompassing the fraught histories of embattled Jewish culture, Yiddish theater, arts censorship and the love that for so long dared not speak its name - all played out to a feverish, toe-tapping klezmer score. The other, which shakes the dust from that long ago scandal, is the 2015 "Indecent," a seamless collaboration between Pulitzer-winning dramatist Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, who justly won a Tony Award for her ghostly yet vibrant staging of the work. One is the 1907 Yiddish Theater classic "God of Vengeance," by Polish writer Sholem Asch, best remembered for the lesbian kiss that shut down its 1923 Broadway debut and got the cast arrested for indecency. "Indecent" is a collision of two plays, both spurred by a passionate pair of Jewish women. ![]() Charles Erickson) This article is more than 4 years old. The cast of Huntington Theatre Company's production of "Indecent." (Courtesy T. ![]()
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