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catdad77a45's review
3.0
Although I taught the play 17 years ago in an LGBT theatre course, I hadn't read it since, and I wanted to revisit it after watching the PBS presentation of the new Broadway play, 'Indecent', which revolves around the censorship of the play when it was presented in America in 1923. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that Margulies' version is an adaptation, rather than a literal translation, which transposes the action from 1906 Poland to 1923 America, and in doing so, dilutes a lot of the power of the original. Enough of Ashe's version remains that it isn't a TOTAL loss, but it made me seek out a more faithful translation.
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