Mae West: Leaves the Building

"MAE WEST's work as a dramatist will never be confused with that of, say, Thornton Wilder," observed staff writer Pat Craig [12 November 2007] in the Contra Costa Times.
• • To that we say, while Mae West was willing to be thrilling, it's a good bet that Thornton Wilder couldn't shimmy if his freakin' life depended on it.
• • Anyway, in a year's end round-up that assesses Bay Area Theatre in 2007, Pat Craig ranks the Berkeley, California revival of "Sex" by Mae West at the Aurora Theatre in the top ten.
• • Even though it's a shame Pat Craig does not remember that the Brooklyn bombshell wrote her play in 1926 — — not 1923 — — let's do the old QUOTE/ UNQUOTE thing now.
• • In the somewhat misinformed West Coast words of Pat Craig:
• • "Sex," Aurora Theatre Company — — Mae West wasn't just another come-hither face. The '20s prototype sex-bomb was also a playwright and an expert at highlighting and exploiting her particular charms. She wrote this show in 1923 [sic], the vice squad closed it on Broadway, and Berkeley's Aurora Theatre revived it hilariously.
— — Source: — —
• • Bay Area News Group — Contra Costa Times — www.contracostatimes.com/
• • Byline: Pat Craig
• • Published on: 23 December 2007
• • Tonight's performance of "Sex" at the Aurora Theatre is the final show. Get some "Sex" before Christmas! See it tonight — — 23 December 2007!
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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