Just saw this item in the UK Telegraph newspaper - different

[dick_nyc]

Gay sex play gets an outing

By Helen Johnstone and Fiona Govan

(Filed: 12/01/2005)

 

The audience of a play was invited to watch two men performing a sex act in London's Sloane Square last night.

 

Tim Fountain: Sex Addict, at the Royal Court Theatre, involves its star, Fountain, logging on to a gay website in search of a potential partner.

 

When it was performed at Edinburgh's Fringe last year the audience voted for its favourite contenders and Fountain cycled off to meet the "winner", returning the next night to relate his experiences.

 

Last night's show had an audience of 100 journalists and friends of the playwright to choose Fountain's partner.

 

Veronica Lee, an arts critic for The Telegraph, said a taxi was sent to pick up a Latin American man in his twenties. When he arrived, the production manager said no sexual act could take place within the theatre. The performers and members of the audience then went outside.

 

Miss Lee said: "The two men disrobed beside the war memorial which was still adorned with poppies from Remembrance Day."

 

She said each man performed a sexual act lasting a few seconds. Fountain, 37, said: "We are making history. I think it is great."

 

A police spokesman said they had not received a complaint. He added, however, that a sex act in public was considered a breach of the peace.

 

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[Guest Tampa Yankee]

>... that a sex act in public was considered a

>breach of the peace.

>

 

More to the point, a 'breach of the piece'.