It caused consternation when it was staged in English in New York in 1923, having been mounted there with a lesser outcry shortly after it was written in 1906. The piece concerns and features excerpts from the neglected Yiddish play God of Vengeance by Polish-Jewish author Sholom Asch. And with fellow American Rebecca Taichman, who won a Tony for directing the play on Broadway in 2017, she has explored it in a way that’s coherent and compelling without letting in any musty whiff of the class-room. A former Pulitzer Prizer-winner, she alighted on a fascinating nugget of cultural history. In that interval, Paula Vogel’s richly researched evocation of a bygone era of Jewish community and Yiddish theatre has arguably become more affecting. Indecent, which closed last March after just the second preview, has resumed, with cast intact, as if time had paused and restarted. What’s especially impressive is that artistic director David Babani kept the faith. That this delectable unsubsidised venue is open again, albeit with its estimable restaurant still shuttered, is very heartening. The pandemic halted the production-line at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
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