International NewsPaula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman to Reunite for European Premiere of Indecent at London’s Menier Chocolate FactoryThe 2020 spring season lineup also includes Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, directed by Patrick Marber.
By
Olivia Clement
January 17, 2020
London's Menier Chocolate Factory will kick off its spring programming with the European premiere of Paula Vogel’s Indecent, reuniting the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright with the play's Tony-winning director, Rebecca Taichman. The 2020 lineup also includes Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, directed by Patrick Marber.
Indecent will run March 13–May 9. In Vogel's Tony-nominated play with music, we follow the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform Sholem Asch's The God of Vengeance. A play about love, immigration, and the place of art in the world, Indecent was seen on Broadway in 2017 following an Off-Broadway premiere at the Vineyard Theatre.
Beginning May 15 and running through July 4, the Menier will present Bennett’s Habeas Corpus. Family, friends, and the quest for sexual pleasures of the body are the ruling passions in this dark and satirical play from The History Boys playwright.
In March the Menier Chocolate Factory production of The Boy Friend transfers to The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, with Kelsey Grammer as Lord Brockhurst, and its co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre of Laura Wade’s The Watsons will open for a limited season at the Harold Pinter Theatre in May.
The recording will be available on standard black vinyl, a limited-edition deluxe gatefold "pop-up" vinyl, and compact disc alongside digital versions.
The musical, a reinvention of Tim Burton’s cult classic film Edward Scissorhands, uses the pop music of Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Alanis Morissette, and more.