AS MAE WEST WOULD SAY: WHEN `SEX' IS BAD . . . IT'S BETTER.(Entertainment)(Review)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: February 24, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

``Sex,'' a 1926 comedy/drama by Mae West, is a terrible play. But at Annex Theatre, ``Sex'' makes for an entertaining show.

West's characters are one-dimensional. Her plot is preposterous. But Annex director Ed Hawkins turns these major flaws into prime assets.

Hawkins' actors are overactors. They exaggerate their overacting. Then they expand upon their exaggerations. The results are often hilarious - if only one isn't put off by lewdness.

The backdrop of the stage is a huge mural showing a naked couple doing what naked couples tend to do (scenery by Matthew ...

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