Spilled Ink is a staged reading series that seeks to support local playwrights by providing a safe and supportive space to bring their work to life.
We provide a director and cast to help the playwright hear their work read aloud in front of an audience and after have a talk back with their peers to help understand what works and what does not.
Spilled Ink also does staged readings of new Films, musicals, adaptations and Classic stage plays as well..
UPCOMING READINGS
Mae West’s SEX
Nov. 23rd 7pm
Directed by Nicole Alicia Gonzales
THE PLAY THAT LANDED AN AMERICAN ICON IN PRISON!
Margy Lamont is a successful sex worker in Montreal’s red-light district at the height of its notoriety, during Prohibition. From the streets of Montreal to the clubs of Trinidad to New England high society, Margy fights against stereotypes that mark her as a damsel in distress to prove to herself, and others, that she is no victim, but a woman taking control of her own life.
Mae West had performed on Broadway before, but her debut as a writer came with this 1926 play in which she also played the lead – the aforementioned Margy Lamont. So scandalized were the powers that be by West’s brazen writing and performance as a confident and succesful sex worker that the play was shut down and Mae West jailed for 10 days for indecency. Reportedly, a sizeable portion of the NYPD, the DA’s office, and the New York judiciary had gone to see the play first (some more than once)… maybe they had to make sure just how “indecent” the play really was?
past readings
