The Drag: A Homosexual Comedy in Three Acts
Sat, Jan 25
|Chandler Center for the Arts
VERMONT PRIDE THEATER PRESENTS THE DRAG BENEFIT A staged reading of Mae West's 1927 play The Drag: A Homosexual Comedy in Three Acts. This is VPT's ninth annual winter benefit, the proceeds this year going to Vermont CARES.
Time & Location
Jan 25, 2020, 7:30 PM
Chandler Center for the Arts, 71 North Main Street, Randolph, VT, USA
About the event
Vermont Pride Theater will present a staged reading of Mae West's 1927 play The Drag: A Homosexual Comedy in Three Acts. This is VPT's ninth annual winter benefit, the proceeds this year going to Vermont CARES, which works throughout the state to prevent the spread of the HIV virus and to connect those with HIV/AIDS with culturally sensitive medical-care providers.
Mae West, queen of the sexual double entendre and an early supporter of gay rights, considered her play to be a "comedy-drama of life". Set in the repressed '20s, it's the riveting story of two love triangles which cross the lines of social and economic class and defy the sexual norms of the day. After successful try-outs in Connecticut and New Jersey, West opened it in the NYC area, where it ran for 10 performances before being closed down by the police. However, it never ran on Broadway…