![]() ![]() In Asch’s drama, brothel owner Yankl Tshaptshovitsh and his wife Sarah try in vain to protect their teenage daughter Rifkele from their own profession by commissioning the creation of a Torah scroll, which they plan to keep in her bedroom as a kind of talisman until she marries a “kosher,” or respectable, Jewish boy. The play revolves around the creation and production history-some real, some invented-of Sholem Asch’s Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance), one of the most frequently performed, and also most controversial, works in the history of the Yiddish stage. Next spring, it will be staged at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. ![]() Paula Vogel’s drama Indecent premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in October, and then moved to the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, where it just completed its run. ![]()
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