![]() ![]() ![]() Vogel said she, too, was first concerned about homophobia - then added other worries as she heard from people in Jacksonville. Scotti attributed the censorship to Florida’s new law limiting classroom instruction and discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity - what opponents call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Scotti is a student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida, where students had been planning to perform Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” this spring - until officials told them on Thursday, the first day of rehearsals, that their show could not go on. ![]() “One hundred years - 100 years - and we are still fighting the same injustices that Sholem Asch and his company did.” “The 100-year anniversary of Sholem Asch’s ‘God of Vengeance’ being shut down on Broadway is the same week that our production of ‘Indecent’ would have opened,” said Madeline Scotti, the student who first drew attention on Instagram to the censorship by her local school board of the “queer Jewish love story” in which Scotti had been cast. In 2023 in Florida, a play about the first play has been canceled for the same reason.įor many involved in the new play, including its Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish playwright and the Florida high schooler cast in a lead role, the déjà vu is alarming. ( JTA) - In 1923 in New York, a Yiddish play that featured the first lesbian scene on a Broadway stage was censored for being indecent. ![]()
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