Simone De Beauvoir on Sex, Art and Feminism
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 24, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000
Opened Mar 24, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000
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Simone De Beauvoir on Sex, Art and Feminism is a one-woman show written and performed by Emily Blake. The production is based on the private life of the great feminist writer and author of The Second Sex. Blake has drawn on many of Simone de Beavoir's writings to create a dramatic show which also has elements of pedagogy and humor.
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Most people only know Simone de Beauvoir as the common-law wife of Jean Paul Sartre and as the author of The Second Sex. Emily Blake's one-woman show, Simone De Beauvoir: On Sex, Art & Feminism, attempts to dispel this ignorance. Unfortunately, the play's plethora of real-life facts--many of them gleaned from Deirdre Baird's pop biography--doesn't sufficiently remove the mask of this misunderstood woman.
De Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. According to this script, however, her real life began when she met the revered founder of Existentialism. Although Sartre was short and "looked like a rat," the two fell instantly in love and began an often-painful relationship which lasted until[...]