LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM FOR WORLD-PREMIERE OF INDECENT CELEBRATED YIDDISH PLAYWRIGHT SHOLEM ASCH’S SEMINAL WORK INSPIRES PULITZER PRIZE WINNER PAULA VOGEL AND REBECCA TAICHMAN’S NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC RUNNING NOVEMBER 13 – DECEMBER 10 PLAYHOUSE AND THE CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE PARTNER TO PRESENT FREE STAGED READING OF ASCH’S GOD OF VENGEANCE ON NOVEMBER 2
La Jolla, CA – La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast and creative team for its upcoming world premiere of Indecent, co-created by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman (Playhouse’s Milk Like Sugar, Sleeping Beauty Wakes), written by Paula Vogel and directed by Rebecca Taichman. Produced in association with Yale Repertory Theatre, the play runs November 13 – December 10 (opening night: Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00pm) in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.
The cast features actors Katrina Lenk, Mimi Lieber, Max Gordon Moore, Tom Nelis, Steven Rattazzi and Adina Verson, as well as musicians Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva and Travis W.Hendrix.
The creative team includes David Dorfman, Choreographer; Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva, Composers; Aaron Halva, Music Director; Riccardo Hernandez, Scenic Designer; Emily Rebholz, costume Designer; Christopher Akerlind, Lighting Designer; Matt Hubbs, Sound Designer; Tal Yarden, Projection Designer; and Amanda Spooner, Stage Manager.
A world-premiere play with music, Indecent is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1922 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, a work considered by many to be a seminal work of Jewish culture – and by others, a work of traitorous libel. Alive with popular songs of the era, this deeply-moving piece charts the history of an incendiary work, the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it, and the evolving identity of the culturally-rich community that inspired its creation.
In conjunction with Indecent, the Playhouse is partnering with the Center for Jewish Culture’s “Straight from the Page” program to present a special staged reading of God of Vengeance, directed by D. Candis Paule, at the Playhouse on November 2, 2015 at 7:00pm. The reading will be followed by a talkback moderated by La Jolla Playhouse Resident Dramaturg Shirley Fishman. Admission to the reading is free but RSVP is required by calling (858) 550-1010 or visiting LaJollaPlayhouse.org. Patrons are also invited to attend a reception with the director and cast after the reading.
Rebecca Taichman directed the Playhouse’s acclaimed productions of Milk Like Sugar and Sleeping Beauty Wakes. Previous Yale Rep credits include the world premieres of Familiar by Danai Gurira and David Adjmi’s The Evildoers and Marie Antoinette. Her Off-Broadway credits include Familiar by Danai Gurira (upcoming, Playwrights Horizons); The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl (Lincoln Center Theater); The Luck of the Irish (LCT3); Stage Kiss, Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons); Orlando (Classic Stage Company); Orpheus (New York City Opera); Dark Sisters (Music Theater Group, Gotham Chamber Opera); Rappaccini’s Daughter (Gotham Chamber Opera); Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep); The Scene (Second Stage, Humana Festival of New Plays); and Menopausal Gentleman (Ohio Theatre). Regional credits: Twelfth Night, Time and the Conways (The Old Globe); Marie Antoinette (A.R.T.); She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Winter’s Tale (McCarter Theatre Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company); Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Twelfth Night, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (McCarter); Dead Man’s Cell Phone and The Clean House (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). Upcoming: Indecent at La Jolla Playhouse and The Vineyard Theatre. She received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
Paula Vogel is Playwright in Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre. Her play How I Learned to Drive received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as her second OBIE Award.
Other plays include Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot ’N’ Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession, and A Civil War Christmas. In 2004–05, she was the playwright in residence at New York’s Signature Theatre. TCG has published four books of her work: The Mammary Plays, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and A Civil War Christmas. Most recent awards include the Theatre Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild, and the 2015 Thornton Wilder Award. She is honored to have two awards to emerging playwrights named after her: the Paula Vogel Award, created by the American College Theatre Festival in 2003, and the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, given annually by the Vineyard Theatre since 2007. Ms. Vogel won the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OBIE for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pels Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, and the Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was recently awarded a Thirtini from 13P in New York. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Double UCross Colony, as well as Yaddo. She has taught for 24 years at Brown University and for five years at Yale School of Drama where she was the Eugene O’Neill Professor of Playwriting. She is honored by Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Quiara Hudes, who is curating the Paula Vogel Mentors Project.
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist residencies and commissions, including BD Wong, Daniel Beaty and Kirsten Greenidge. Currently led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff, La Jolla Playhouse has had 25 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 35 Tony Awards, among them Jersey Boys, Memphis, The Who’s Tommy, Big River, as well as Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, both fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.
WHAT: Indecent Co-Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman Written by Paula Vogel; Directed by Rebecca Taichman WHEN: November 13 – December 10 (Press Opening: Wed, November 18 at 7:00pm) Tue/Wed at 7:30pm; Thu/Fri/Sat at 8:00pm; Sun at 7:00pm; Sat/Sun at 2:00pm WHERE: Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037 WHO: Choreographer: David Dorfman Composers: Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva Music Director: Aaron Halva Scenic Design: Riccardo Hernandez Costume Design: Emily Rebholz Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind Sound Design: Matt Hubbs Projection Design: Tal Yarden, Dramaturg: Shirley Fishman Stage Manager: Amanda Spooner Company: Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva, Travis W. Hendrix Katrina Lenk, Mimi Lieber, Max Gordon Moore, Tom Nelis, Steven Rattazzi, Adina Verson
BACKGROUND:
A world-premiere play with music, Indecent is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1922 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, a work considered by many to be a seminal work of Jewish culture – and by others, a work of traitorous libel. Alive with popular songs of the era, this deeply-moving piece charts the history of an incendiary work, the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it, and the evolving identity of the culturally-rich community that inspired its creation.
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