Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley —
Pay-What-You-Will Performance —
A wicked, witty, and musical adaptation of Mae West’s scandalous Broadway sensation.
SEX is Edward Jordon’s wildly creative reimagining of the 1926 melodrama/musical comedy about the international misadventures of Montreal prostitute Margy LaMont.
Although West’s play premiered in a scandalous Broadway season that saw many so-called “sex plays,” SEX was different in that it wasn’t obedient to the unwritten rule that prescribed ruin for fallen women. Its disobedience led to Mae West’s arrest and a grand jury’s determination that the “obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure drama” might corrupt “the morals of youth.” West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity, and traveled there in style – garlanded in roses, wearing silk underwear, and riding in a limousine!