Indecent, Menier Chocolate Factory review - cabaret-style depiction of a rapidly changing world
An intriguing if flawed evening, boosted by ebullient ensemble work Indecent is a play wrapped inside a news story about stigma. Playwright Paula Vogel was at Cornell University when she stumbled on a "yellowing copy of an out-of-print translation" of Sholem Asch's The God of Vengeance. Asch had been born into a Hasidic Jewish family but rebelled after discovering the decadent delights of fin-de-siècle …