A review by rosepearl_reads
Indecent (Tcg Edition) by Paula Vogel

5.0

This play haunts me in a way that no other piece of writing ever has. Maybe that's because it feels so specifically tuned to me - there are precious few pieces of Jewish sapphic media that explore this intersection so thoughtfully and full of care. But I think it's the knowing that this is based in real history, that as far back as over a century ago there was someone who cared to show that Jewish women do love each other as human beings, and a whole company was punished for portraying that honestly. I don't think I can properly express what it means to read or hear "a Shanda for the goyim" shouted aloud, nor "this will be the only role in my lifetime where I can tell someone I love that I love her onstage", nor "to know where we've come from, and to know where we have to go and feel hopeful that we can get there", nor the verse or songs inseparable from their unambiguously Jewish history.

From ashes they rise. A blink in time, ashes to ashes, and the troupe returns to dust. But their story lives on. And that, I think, is the most powerful testament that anyone could pray for.