• • Discussing the Aurora Theatre Company’s production of Sex for the Contra Costa Times, drama critic Chad Jones had this impression.
• • "Sex" has some very funny lines, and Mae West wrote herself an interesting role in Margy LaMont, a Montreal prostitute who attempts to go straight and gets involved with a naive society boy. But the dialogue is stiff and dated, and as for plot, well, nothing really kicks in until Act 3 when the past and present clash in an amusing way.
• • What makes Sex interesting now is, of course, Mae West herself. She wrote this piece before she had fully developed her trademark Mae West persona, so we get her intelligence, humor and strength with less of the robotic waxwork mechanisms she later created for herself.
• • Delia MacDougall has always been a smart, reliable actor, and she knows that simply doing a Mae West impersonation for 2 1/2 hours isn’t going to cut it. So we get glimpses of Mae — — especially when MacDougall struts and sings “Sweet Man” and “Shake That Thing” (a great ensemble number) — — but what we really get is Margy, a worldly broad desperate to make something of her life. She doesn’t exactly have a heart of gold, but she has a brain and good instincts. And perhaps most happily of all, she has a raging libido, and she owns it.
• • Delia MacDougall is marvelous (and she looks fantastic in Cassandra Carpenter’s 1920s dresses). Her performance alone should make you eager to dive headlong into Sex. ...
• • Excerpt from: "Theatre Dogs: Backstage with Chad Jones"
• • Source: ContraCostaTimes.com
• • Posted on Saturday, November 10th, 2007
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• • In this scene from "Sex: A Comedy Drama" [1926] prostitute Margy LaMont (who has been dating the well-heeled Jimmy Stanton) tells off society lady Clara Stanton.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West's "Sex" • • 2007 • •NYC
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