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Mae West

MAE WEST

  (1893 - 1980)
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    GreenLight, Suite 100, 6060 Center Drive, Los Angeles, California 90045

Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893  November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spAnned seven decades.

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below is a list of Mae West's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Catherine Was Great         Constant Sinner         Diamond Lill         Drag         Pleasure Man, The         Sex
Catherine Was Great

Synopsis:
The story of Empress of all the Russias - Catherine the Great

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, New York     1944

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Music:
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Genre:
Historical drama

Parts:
Male:  53            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Constant Sinner

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Royale Theatre, New York     1931

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  26            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Diamond Lill

Diamond Lill
Dope smuggling and white slave trade in 1890s Chinatown

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1st Produced:
Royale Theatre, New York     1928

Organisations:
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1st Published:
McCauley Company 1932   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  20            Female:  13            Other:  -

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Drag

Drag
1927 and Mae West writes the sort of play about gay men that gay playwrights weren't to write until the 1970s

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1st Produced:
-     1927

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Three Plays by Mae West, Nick Hern Books, London,    

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Pleasure Man, The

Pleasure Man, The
Backstage of a Broadway vaudeville theatre. - comedians, dancing girls and drag queens. A lothario's dalliances lead to his death

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1st Produced:
Biltmore Theatre     1928

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays By Mae West" published by Routledge 1997   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  26            Female:  15            Other:  -

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Sex

Sex
Montreal's red light district - Rocky's residence. Police officer Dawson is there to get money - he is keeping quite about a murder - but Rocky does not have the money and he offers him Margy. Margy will have none of this. Dawson leaves saying that he will be back. Rocky leaves - he has a date with a "society dame" who he plans to seduce and then blackmail. Sailor Gregg arrives a client of Margy's but also a friend. They go out to a swanky restaurant, Gregg spending the money that he had intended paying for Margy's services. Rocky brings his society dame, Clara, back to his house, drugs her and drags her into the bedroom. Much later Margy and Gregg return and find the unconscious Clara. They manage to revive her. Dawson comes back wanting money. He asks what Clara is doing there. Margy says she is a friend visiting but Clara says that Margy had forced her into the apartment, drugged her and stolen her jewellery. As she is taken away Margy swears she will get revenge

Notes:
Written as Jane Mast

1st Produced:
Daly's 63rd Street Theatre, New York     1926

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays By Mae West" published by Routledge 1997   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  5            Other:  -

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