Indecent was developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2013 and has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and the Vineyard Theatre. Indecent was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions and Yale Repertory Theatre in close collaboration with director Rebecca Taichman, and co-produced by La Jolla Playhouse. The school produced Rent in 2021, which depicts a number of gay relationships, but that was before Florida passed the “Parental Rights in Education” law last July, otherwise known as the “don’t say gay” bill, which has caused concern among the theatre community and beyond.Paula Vogel is Playwright in Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre.
“My question is this: Is the content too mature for students or too mature for the school board?” Vogel said. The school district told Action News Jax in a statement that the play contains “adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members and student audiences.” STORY: JSO: Man shot in leg during overnight dispute in Hyde Park It also included a lesbian couple in its story, and has the first ever kiss onstage between lesbians in American theatre.
It resulted in the arrest and conviction of the cast and producer on obscenity charges. “Indecent” is about the censorship of another play called “God of Vengeance ” during the rise of hate against Jews in 1923. “I’m outraged as a playwright and a citizen,” said Paula Vogel, who wrote the Tony Award winning play and is a former Florida educator.Ī social media post by theatre student Madeline Scotti went viral where she announced the play had been banned and that the district is “trying to tell us this play is dirty immoral, obscene and indecent” and went on to say, “‘Indecent ’ is a queer Jewish love story.” The Broadway play is about censorship, which makes the decision by the district all the more ironic, according to supporters of the play. RELATED: Controversial Jacksonville high school production canceled for “adult sexual dialogue” A Pulitzer prize-winning playwright spoke to Action News Jax’s Ben Becker about her Broadway play, which was banned by the Duval County School District for containing LGBTQ sexual overtones.Īction News Jax first reported about the district cancelling a local production of “Indecent,” which was supposed to be performed by students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.
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