![]() ![]() Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). ![]() Vogel and Taichman blend facts with imagination to retell the history of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, which stands apart from other early twentieth-century Yiddish and American plays for depicting a love affair between two women. This will not be our last encounter with the rain scene, nor will it be the last time that characters, moments, and places fold seamlessly into one another. The lights brighten, “Ale Brider” begins to play, and we are somewhere else now, the two women part of the ensemble’s circle dance. “Remember this,” Lemml instructs as the two lovers-Rifkele and Manke-twirl together in the rain. Lemml has just introduced himself as the stage manager for Yiddish playwright Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, a love story between Rifkele, a brothel owner’s daughter, and Manke, the prostitute who lives downstairs. ![]() “It all starts with this moment,” narrates Lemml, a character in Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman’s Tony Award-winning play Indecent.Īs we are starting to learn, Indecent is a play about a play. As they shake their hair and laugh, we intuit that what is falling must be rain. ![]() They stand awash in emerald light, their heads thrown back towards something that falls from above. Holding hands, two women face the audience. ![]()
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