The girls in question are Rifkele, played by a sweet Jessica Greenberg, and Manke, acted with subtle compassion by a fiery Tracy Michailidis. It’s 1906 and Asch, played with a fitting dash of intellectual aloofness by Jonathan Gould, has written a play about women in love - they even kiss onstage - and Lemml is smitten by the girls’ tenderness. Lemml, the troupe’s stage manager (played by a perfectly cast Matt Baram), wants to tell us the story of a play that changed his life: “God of Vengeance” by Sholem Asch. “Indecent” opens with small mountains of ash falling from the sleeves of a dusty theatre troupe. Languages intersect, memories collide, bodies tangle.īut if it’s a love story, it’s a haunted one, a play-within-a-play that spirals in on itself like a ravenous snake. Mirvish and Studio 180’s “Indecent” is anything but.īrought to life with gentleness by director Joel Greenberg, Paula Vogel’s tribute to theatre-making has all the trappings of a world-class love story.
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