SEX: A Sex Worker Community Revival of Mae West’s Play Juniper Fleming
About This Show
Written in 1926 Mae West wrote, directed, starred in, and even went to prison for her play, SEX! The work interrogated age-old questions regarding the role of social class in American culture, gender/sexuality & prostitution. West played Margy LaMont, an experienced & ambitious prostitute from Montreal. During it’s run, a grand jury deemed the play ‘‘wicked, lewd, scandalous, bawdy, obscene, indecent, infamous, immoral, and impure.’’ The contentious nature of the play drew large audiences, but ultimately, also sent West to an eight day incarceration in Welfare Island. To our knowledge, the play hasn’t been revived since. This contemporary restaging illuminates the often erased, but longstanding, resistance of sex workers in their pursuit of speaking, writing & performing their truths.
About the Artists
Juniper Fleming is an artist currently living in both Detroit and New York City. Attaining her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014, she was the recipient of a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship in 2013. Her film, Predatory Prostitute has been screened in the 28th MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, the 2015 Sex Worker Film and Art Festival, and most recently, the 11th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival Berlin. She will be attending Cranbook Academy of Arts for her MFA in the Fall.
Lydia Love has been an active member of the WOW Café Theatre collective since 2009. She founded her own performance art troupe, Passionate Persuasions, in 2010. Her work in theatre, dance, burlesque, and experimental performance art have taken place at WOW, Madame X, The Slipper Room, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, The Delancey, and private kink and sex parties throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Wednesday, June 8 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12
75 minutes
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