Mae West: Sexual Powerball

Starring Australian actress Melita Jurisic as the American icon MAE WEST, a new play “Arbus and West” is onstage in Melbourne until March 30th. Naturally, Mae would have stipulated that her name was placed first in the title. Let’s enjoy a spirited review by drama critic Cameron Woodhead. This is Part 6.
• • “Arbus and West mere mouthpieces for Sewell's 'ideas' play” • •
• • how power shaped and constrained their lives • •
• • Cameron Woodhead wrote: Sewell largely fails to turn a dramatic essay into wholly satisfying theatrical art.

• • Cameron Woodhead wrote: Even so, if Sewell sought to explore how power shaped and constrained the lives of two powerful women — — Mae West reclaiming sexual power and pleasure for women, free of shame, before feminism was even coined; and Diane Arbus who saw and helped create an alternative to the male gaze that Mae West ferociously overmastered, even as she profited from and was complicit in it — — he largely fails to turn a dramatic essay into wholly satisfying theatrical art.
• • Part 6 ends this stage review by Cameron Woodhead. Stay tuned for another critique of this play centered on Mae West during the 1960s.
• • Source: Sydney Morning Herald, stage review; published on Monday, 4 March 2019.
• • On Monday, 27 March 1989 • •
• • Published on Monday, 27 March 1989 was Carol Ward's fascinating book "Mae West: A Bio-bibliography" [Greenwood Press, 241 pages]. Ward's chapters include a biography, an examination of the art of Mae West, and a bibliographical checklist of key Mae West sources.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The soundtrack to the motion picture "Belle of the Nineties" was recorded at Hollywood Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Are you makin' love — — or takin' an inventory?"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Variety mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West’s new characterization is of a Bowery girl named Peaches O’Day, one time actress of the 1890s, a con-girl, with liberal views on the subject of larceny. Most action of the story takes place in New York on New Year’s, 1900.  . . .
• • Source: Variety; published on Thursday, 31 December 1936
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • • 
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — — 
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/

• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,100 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4178th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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