Mae West Trial of Sex at the Crane Theatre!

Hi! Walking Shadow Theatre presents Mae West Trial of Sex: Description is as follows:

### About Mae West

Before she was an icon of the silver screen, Mae West was a Broadway actress and playwright (under the name Jane Mast). In early 1927, while performing in her long-running melodrama, Sex, about a Montreal sex worker, West was developing a new play about Greenwich Village queer culture called The Drag. This play had a sympathetic view of homosexuality, and included a large-scale drag ball onstage, which worried the New York press and police. West became the target of a media campaign to clean up Broadway, culminating in a police raid of Sex. West fought the charges in court, and received a 10 day jail sentence for obscenity, but the trial and publicity launched her career.

Extra! Extra! Provocative Playwright Mae West Runs Afoul of Broadway Censors, Her Popular Play SEX Raided for Obscenity. Tammany Hall claims it was necessary to prevent West's new homosexual drama, THE DRAG, from corrupting the youth of New York. The sultry starlet faces time in the slammer if she doesn't amend her immoral ways and stop SEX at once!

Mae West and the Trial of Sex draws from court documents, newspapers, and West's own plays to explore the overt sexuality and curious queerness of her rise to fame, in this world premiere production by Artistic Director John Heimbuch.

Monday June 9th (make sure you pick the correct date!) is a pay what you can night - low as $10 on up. Let's meet after the ticket area between 6:45 and 7:00 to chat up with one another. Show begins at 7:30. Not sure when the doors to get in for seating open though. It lasts for 1 1/2 hours. The discount tickets go quickly so get your tickets sooner than later!!

I think this will be a very interesting show... I am saving 25 spots and no spots for guests - just to have the member's names signed up. You can always buy an extra ticket for your friend if you wish to have one come with you. I do like mostly members attending though so we can get to know one another better!

Go here to purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mae-west-and-the-trial-of-sex-tickets-922678635637?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Crane Theatre has a parking lot and parking in the street as well. There is a yellow door in the back you enter in.

I look forward to having you come to share with me and members/friends your love of theatre!