Sex

by Mae West

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Estimated Run Time: 2 hours

“I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.”
-Mae West

“Crude.”
-The New York Times

“The Babe Ruth of stage prosties.”
-Variety

Mae West’s titillating first play, was shut down for obscenity and got her thrown into jail for ten days. Until then Sex was the best-selling play of the 1926 Broadway season, running ten months. Years later, the laws enacted to censor her in New York and Hollywood were used to censor Tennessee Williams. The Festival’s production, directed by Mitchell Polonsky and produced by The Goat Exchange, will erupt during an iconic Tea Dance on the deck of The Boatslip Resort and Beach Club. The Goat Exchange is an international ensemble producing site-specific, multi-form theatrical experiences and irreverent reappropriations of classic dramatic texts and verbatim transcripts. Boston audiences flocked to their 2018 production of Antigone in Harvard Stadium.

The laws enacted to censor her in New York and Hollywood were used years later to censor Tennessee Williams.