KSU Theatre has been selected to participate in the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union’s fall 2019 Screen to Screen Live Feed and Q&A with the Tony award winning director of Paula Vogel’s Indecent, Rebecca Taichman.
OCTOBER 4, Friday 3pm: viewing of Indecent, Purple Masque lobby
OCTOBER 7, Monday 1pm: Live interview with Taichman, Purple Masque lobby
Taichman won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play, an Obie Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Indecent. Ms. Taichman has directed on and off Broadway, new plays, classics, musicals, and opera. She is a resident director at The Roundabout Theatre in NYC, a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute, and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Indecent by Paula Vogel recounts the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which was produced on Broadway in 1923, for which the cast of the original production was arrested on the grounds of obscenity. Rebecca Taichman, was a graduate student at the Yale School of Drama. For her graduate thesis, she wrote and directed a play based on the circumstances surrounding the Sholem Asch play God of Vengeance. Taichman titled her play The People vs. ‘The God of Vengeance’ which was presented at Yale Repertory Theatre in May 2000. Taichman explains: “I wrote my own version, but I’m just not a playwright, so it never quite clicked. But it never went away, I kept wanting to pursue it, and eventually I found Paula Vogel, who was equally interested in it, and we have since co-created the piece.”
In her review for Newsday, Linda Winer asked “Has there ever been anything quite like Indecent, a play that touches — I mean deeply touches — so much rich emotion about history and the theater, anti-Semitism, homophobia, censorship, world wars, red-baiting and, oh, yes, joyful human passion?… It’s a gripping and entertaining show with laughter and tears…in which two women from the marvelous 10-member cast re-enact what, in 1921, had been the first lesbian kiss on an American stage.”
Join us for the viewing of this phenomenal show as well as the incredible opportunity to hear from Rebecca Taichman herself!