When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach.

'Indecent is more than a play about forbidden love: It's about theater as a life force.' -New York Post The historical perspective is vast and knowing.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?.An extraordinary play.' -Newsday 'A moving and fascinating play.A singular achievement. Rich in sympathy and humor, Indecent has the scope of an epic but the intimacy of a chamber piece.It celebrates and illustrates the power of theater.' -Time Out New York 'Superbly realized.Indecent, the powerful play by Paula Vogel, sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, with explosive results.' -New York Times Vogel's play thrums with music, desire, and fear, and it's shrewd about the ways in which America isn't free, and about how art does and doesn't transcend the perilous winds of history.' -New Yorker She has held a distinguished career as a teacher and mentor to young playwrights, first at Brown University and then at the Yale School of Drama.'Revelatory.As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Paula Vogel is the author of Indecent, The Baltimore Waltz, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq and A Civil War Christmas, among many other plays. It is published here for the first time as a stand-alone edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive is widely recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary drama.

This is the gift of theater and of writing: a transubstantiation of pain and secrecy into light, into community, into understanding if not acceptance.' - Paula Vogel, from her Preface It felt as if the play was rewriting me, and I will always remember the sensation of lightness I had in the middle of the night as I wrote it. How I Learned to Drive gave me that gift. 'As I try to come to grips with the lack of control I have in terms of my own visibility and commercial success within the American Theater, I remain convinced that I have control in terms of how I see my identity.

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