"The Drag (play) The Drag is a dramatic play written by Mae West under her pen name Jane Mast. The play opened in out-of-town tryouts in New Jersey and Connecticut, but was later forced to close for its portrayal of homosexuality and cross-dressing. The play never opened on Broadway, as West had planned. This play was the follow-up to West's highly controversial play ""Sex"". West claimed that the inspiration behind the play came from the homosexual young men that she knew around that time who, according to her, desperately wanted to be open about their relationships with their male companions."
"""Sex"", which she wrote, produced, and directed. Although conservative critics panned the show, ticket sales were strong. The production did not go over well with city officials, who had received complaints from some religious groups and the theater was raided, with West arrested along with the cast. She was taken to the Jefferson Market Court House, (now Jefferson Market Library), where she was prosecuted on morals charges and on April 19, 1927, was sentenced to 10 days for ""corrupting the morals of youth"". Though West could have paid a fine and been let off, she chose the jail sentence for"
"full audiences. ""Sex"" was the only play on Broadway that season to stay open through the summer, into the following year. There were 375 performances before the New York Police Department raided West and her company in February 1927. They were charged with obscenity, after 325,000 people had watched it, including members of the police department and their wives, judges of the criminal courts, and seven members of the district attorney's staff. West was sentenced to 10 days in a workhouse on Roosevelt Island (known then as ""Welfare Island"") and fined $500. The resulting publicity increased her national renown. The"
"reel. Mae West had already established herself as a comedic performer when her 1926 Broadway show ""Sex"" made national headlines. Tried and convicted of indecency by the New York City District Attorney, she served eight days in prison. West carefully constructed a stage persona and carried it over into her interviews and personal appearances. Despite her voluptuous physique, most of her appeal lay in her suggestive manner. She became a wordsmith in the art of the come-on and the seductive line, and despite her obvious appeal to male audiences, was popular with women as well. Over the cries of the"
"in ""Søvngængersken"", a Danish production of ""La Somnambule"" which Bournonville had discovered in Paris. She went on to dance Virginie in Bournonville's ""Paul og Virginie"" and Margaretha in his ""Faust"" (1932), gaining the status of a soloist. After a questionable pregnancy, an unsuccessful marriage, periods of illness, and increasing problems with Bournonville and the Royal Theatre, in 1831 she was finally punished with a month's imprisonment in Copenhagen Castle's Blue Tower. She returned to the theatre where she again received acclaim for dancing Margarethe in ""Faust"". However, after further disputes with the theatre, in 1834 she left to dance in"
"divorce on grounds of cruelty. She had been married to Levinsky for only five weeks. Roxana Sand Roxana Sand (also known as Roxanne Carmine, née Golda Glickman) was an erotic dancer and fan dancer whose performance at Minsky's Burlesque, in August 1936, resulted in a crackdown on burlesque shows in New York City. She was one of five dancers who performed strip-tease acts, which led to the conviction of Sam Krauss, manager of the Gotham Theatre, East 125th Street (Manhattan), for giving an indecent performance. The theatre was owned by Abe Minsky. Minsky's was soon closed along with other burlesque"
"had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies"". In 1923, she became a member of the Fővárosi Operettszínház theatre. Starting in 1940, she was the leading actress in the ""Új Magyar Színház"" theatre. In 1944, working at the ""Donausender"" radio station in Vienna, she rallied for Hungary to continue the fight in World War II on the side of Nazi Germany and was sentenced to eight months in prison after the war. She was also banned from playing in theatres for three years. She never appeared on stage"
"States. The play featured scenes of nudity and explicit sex, and, soon after it opened in New York City in 1969, was closed by the Public Morals Police Squad of New York City, with Raphael being arrested along with the actors and director. It reopened after a judge ruled that the play was protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In February 1970 the Manhattan Criminal Court found Raphael, along with the cast, producer and set designer, ""guilty beyond any reasonable doubt of participating in an obscene performance which predominantly appealed and"
"would be scrutinized and censored. The Deputy Police Commissioner at the time issued a police raid of ""The Captive, Sex,"" and ""Virgin Man"" on February 9, 1927. West was tried and found guilty, sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $500. Upon her release, West reportedly announced that “A few days in the pen ‘na $500 fine ain’t too bad a deal”. West then donated to the women’s prison and established the Mae West Memorial Library and continued with other artistic endeavors. Theatre scholar Jordan Schildcrout examines the production history of the play and its representation of gay characters"
"Roxana Sand Roxana Sand (also known as Roxanne Carmine, née Golda Glickman) was an erotic dancer and fan dancer whose performance at Minsky's Burlesque, in August 1936, resulted in a crackdown on burlesque shows in New York City. She was one of five dancers who performed strip-tease acts, which led to the conviction of Sam Krauss, manager of the Gotham Theatre, East 125th Street (Manhattan), for giving an indecent performance. The theatre was owned by Abe Minsky. Minsky's was soon closed along with other burlesque venues by protests from citizen's groups and the reform administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. She"
"ordered Nethersole, her co-star, and two managers arrested on February 21, and police closed the theatre on March 5. Following a month of intense public and press interest (during which Nethersole and her company performed different plays) and a two-day trial, a jury spent 15 minutes acquitting Nethersole and the others. The play reopened two days later, on April 7. The ""Sapho"" indecency trial is a well-known step in the transition from the era of Victorian morality as it existed in America, particularly as regards attitudes toward onstage depictions of gender, intimacy and sex. According to Olga Nethersole's 1951 obituary,"
"smiles and says she’s leaving for Australia. She takes Gregg's hand, knowing that he has loved her all along. The comedy-drama premiered April 26, 1926, at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre in New York City. ""Sex"" received many scathing reviews from a variety of critics because of the play’s moral implications. ""The New York Times"" considered it be a ""crude and inept play, cheaply produced and poorly acted"" while ""Billboard"" condemned it as ""the cheapest most vulgar low show to have dared to open in New York this year"". However, despite negative press, ""Sex"" was a Broadway fan favorite, playing to"
"The Captive (play) The Captive () is a 1926 play by Édouard Bourdet. The three-act melodrama was among the first Broadway plays to deal with lesbianism and caused a scandal in New York City. The play was shut down after 160 performances and prompted the adoption of a state law dealing with obscenity. Irène is a lesbian tortured by her love for Madame d'Aiguines, but pretending engagement to Jacques. Though Irène attempts to leave Mme. d'Aiguines and marry Jacques, she returns to the relationship, saying that it is ""a prison to which I must return captive, despite myself"". Mme. d'Aiguines"
"sex perversion"". The trial was riddled with homophobia, chastising the “degenerates” that they saw on the stage, and asking if their manners of female impersonation carried on off stage. The jury failed to reach a decision and the charges were dismissed. West never appeared in court and was fined $60,000 West later wrote an expanded, novelized version of the play, published in 1975. Theatre crew Performers Act One Act One opens in a theatre in a small Midwest town. The scrubwomen are finishing up cleaning the theatre, looting scraps left from previous performances and gossiping. The crew comes in and"
"play was a success. She pursued her theatre career with the play ""Tanıştırayım, Burası Türkiye"" (""Let Me Introduce You to Turkey""), a cabaret for which she had chosen the title herself and in which she also sang a song. The play was performed by the private group Abdullah Şahin Nokta Theatre and it was also well received by the audiences. At the peak of her career in 2007, complicated series of events led to her being sentenced to imprisonment. She spent five and a half months in Istanbul's Paşakapısı Prison for Women and Juveniles. She was productive even in prison,"
"really sorry we had to do this.' And the next night they were all back enjoying the show"". Later that year on December 13 she was arrested during a performance at Stage Door Johnny's, a strip club in Cleveland. Police said she was nude except for her shoes and was having sexual contact with an audience member. She was charged with promoting prostitution and was held in jail until she was freed on a $1,000 bond. Chambers denied the charge, saying, ""I did the same show I've been doing for the last six years. Police just happened to be in"
"the Tracy's house was searched and the couple arrested on charges of pimping, pandering and prostitution. They were subsequently convicted in a trial in state court and sentenced to jail terms: Wilbur Tracy for 180 days plus a $1,000.00 fine; Mary Ellen Tracy for 90 days plus mandatory screening for STDs. During the early 1990s, Mary Ellen Tracy hosted her own public-access television talk show series, ""Sabrina On..."". She has also appeared in a number of x-rated films under a variety of stage names, including the ""Positively Pagan"" series, and ""Club Head 2"" (1991). On January 29, 1992, Mary Ellen"
"claimed that she was the bisexual nymphomaniac sister of the magazine's editor Doreen Millington, and so gave Mary her new stage name. She became well-known thanks to her appearances in Sullivan's porn magazines such as ""Whitehouse"" and ""Private"". She soon became the most popular model in any of Sullivan's magazines. In November 1977 magistrates acquitted her and Sullivan following prosecution under the Obscene Publications Acts. She had a small part in Sullivan's 1977 softcore sex comedy ""Come Play with Me"", alongside Alfie Bass and Irene Handl Although critically panned, the film was highly successful, running continuously for four years at"
"leading young feminist writer."" In 2013 Skinner co-wrote the screenplay for the film ""How I Live Now"". Penelope Skinner Penelope Skinner is a British playwright who came to prominence after her play ""Fucked"" was first produced in 2008 at the Old Red Lion Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to huge critical acclaim and has had successive plays staged in London including at the Bush Theatre, National Theatre and Royal Court Theatre, where she is a member of the Young Writers Programme. Her play ""Eigengrau"" staged at the Bush Theatre in 2010 was a critical and box office hit and Skinner"
"for gain an indecent and profane performance"", with obscenity later added to the charge. The play's detractors were concerned by its sexual content rather than religion. The Law Reform Commission's 1991 report comments ""the equation of indecency and obscenity with profanity is probably misconceived. Although profane matter may sometimes be obscene or indecent, it is not necessarily so."" Section 13 of the Defamation Act, 1961 prescribed penalties for blasphemous libel, but did not define the offence, which was presumed still to be the common-law offence. The new maximum penalties were seven years' penal servitude, or two years' imprisonment and a"
"of both plays arrested. On 9 February, while Rathbone and Menken were in middle of the second act of ""The Captive"", police marched onto the stage and arrested the pair. With the rest of the cast, they were thrown in the back of a police van with the cast of ""SEX"", who had also been arrested and taken to jail. West and Menken fought with each other, with West accusing Menken of being a lesbian in a lavender marriage and Menken suggesting that West was a drag queen. Rathbone described the events on the night of the raid in his"
"the legitimate stage in 1957, playing the role of Rita Marlowe in the Dallas Little Theater production of ""Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"" In late October of that year, in yet another notorious case, Dallas police raided her apartment and found four-fifths of an ounce of marijuana, which was said to be hidden in her bra. She was arrested for drug possession, subsequently convicted, and received a 15-year prison sentence, though, according to her, she was set up and was only holding the marijuana for a friend. While the marijuana case devolved into a lengthy series of appeals, her fame"
"performance unless she changed out of a costume that revealed her nipples. Williams refused. The show's make-up artists found a compromise and painted her breasts black. In January 1981, Milwaukee, Wisconsin police arrested Williams for simulating masturbation on stage, and charged with battery to an officer and obscene conduct. She was cleared of all charges. Later that year in Cleveland, Ohio, Williams was acquitted of an obscenity charge for simulating sex on stage wearing only shaving cream; she subsequently covered her nipples with electrical tape to avoid arrest. In November, an Illinois judge sentenced her to one year supervision and"
"testimony of four adult male witnesses to the act of sexual penetration, or by their own admission of guilt, stating three times in court ""I have committed adultery."". Her family urged her not to confess, but instead to merely promise never to see her lover again. On her return to the courtroom, she repeated her confession: ""I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery."" On 15 July 1977, both were publicly executed in Jeddah by the side of the Queen's Building in the park. Despite her royal status, she was blindfolded, made to kneel, and executed"
"the publicity it would garner. While incarcerated on Welfare Island (now known as Roosevelt Island), she dined with the warden and his wife; she told reporters that she had worn her silk panties while serving time, in lieu of the ""burlap"" the other girls had to wear. West got great mileage from this jail stint. She served eight days with two days off for ""good behavior"". Media attention surrounding the incident enhanced her career, by crowning her the darling ""bad girl"" who ""had climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong"". Her next play, ""The Drag"", dealt with homosexuality, and"
"plays contains suggestive jokes and innuendo. Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist in the 17th century, used scatological humor in some of his pieces, including his famous essay A Modest Proposal and his rather crude poem ""The Lady's Dressing Room"", in which the speaker comments on the goings-on in a 17th-century woman's room, including her business in her chamber pot. Dirty jokes were once considered subversive and underground, and rarely heard in public. Comedian Lenny Bruce was tried, convicted, and jailed for obscenity after a stand up performance that included off-color humor in New York City in 1964. Comedian and actor"
"indecent exposure laws prohibited dancers from moving while appearing nude onstage. According to Bacon, she and Carroll tried several different tricks to get around these laws before finally coming up with the idea of the fan dance. The dance was an immediate hit. On July 9, 1930, police raided the New Amsterdam Theatre and arrested Bacon, Earl Carroll and other cast members for ""giving an indecent performance"". She was appearing in a scene entitled ""A Window at Merls"". Although the show underwent some changes after the raid, Bacon continued to perform the fan dance. However, Earl Carroll stated that Bacon"
"was banned later. In 1975 she joined Shiraz Theatre Group for producing a play named Moalem, by Shapour Jowrkesh, and in 1976 participated in Tous Theatre Festival, and worked with Shapour Jowrkesh again, for a play named Khoubchehr. In early post-revolution years she was involved in political activities and was banned from studying. During these years, her brother was executed, all her sister were banned from education in elementary and high school, one of her sisters and her husband were sentenced to death penalty and escaped Iran, one of her brothers-in-law got arrested several times. For a decade, she couldn't"
"lacks consistency... this plot has more holes than a tennis net. Murray-Smith seems to put ideas and gags way ahead of consistent characterization and motive."" The Female of the Species (play) The Female of the Species is a comic play by Joanna Murray-Smith first performed in 2006. The play is a satire about celebrity feminists, with a plot loosely inspired by a real-life incident in 2000, when author Germaine Greer was held at gunpoint in her own home by a disturbed student. The play was premiered in Australia, where it had several productions in 2006 and 2008. A London production"
"Westminster in an unmarked grave in the churchyard. For unknown reasons, her burial was delayed by about a week and her death duties remain unpaid. Haywood began her acting career in 1715 at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Public records for this year list her as ""Mrs. Haywood,"" appearing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, ""Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater"".[3] By 1717, she had moved to Lincoln's Inn Fields, where she worked for John Rich. Rich had her rewrite a play called ""The Fair Captive"". The play only ran for three nights (to the author's benefit), but Rich added"
"to the Cannes Film Festival to promote the biographical drama ""Inferno."" She was set to star as the lead, adult-film performer Linda Lovelace, but was later replaced while in court mandated rehab. Because she was in Cannes, Lohan missed a mandatory DUI progress hearing. A bench warrant was issued for her arrest which was rescinded after she posted bail. A judge determined that Lohan had violated the terms of her probation by missing several mandatory classes and meetings. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail, followed by 90 days of inpatient rehab treatment. However, Lohan served only 14 days"
"in 1829 and ballerina in 1834. She was a popular and talented ballerina, but was affected by gout to such a degree that she was forced to retire in 1839. She made her debut as an actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and was regarded to have displayed good talent, but was not considered to live up to the expectations. From 1845 until her death, she was engaged as an actress at the ""Mindre teatern"", a theater more frequented by the wider public than the royal stage and where she enjoyed great and widespread popularity among both audience and critics."
"her immunity should she be arrested for the same offense while on trial; however she was arrested during a night of the trial while performing her act, despite her immunity and the fact that she was wearing long underwear and a note that read ""CENSORED. S.F.P.D."" that time. In an unusual move, the judge viewed her performance at the Savoy and cleared her of all charges after deeming that ""anyone who could find something lewd about the dance as she puts it on has to have a perverted idea of morals"". In the early '50s she was traveling with a"