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Salient. Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 26, No. 6. Tuesday, June 4, 1963

Bad, Bad Broadway

Bad, Bad Broadway

Many plays on Broadway, New York, this season deal openly or shyly with homosexuality, reports The New York Times.

Says the Times: "In Strange Interlude,' Eugene O'Neill, writing in the twenties, when armies of amateur Freuds had not yet invaded the theatre is quite explicit.

"The sketch in which 'Beyond The Fringe' spoofs homosexuals is not much funnier than some of O'Neill's lines, which were written seriously and honestly. The four happily demented Englishmen mince and pose with exaggerated delicacy as they prepare a series of ads representing the virile male.

"In Harold Pinter's 'The Collection,' there is a middle-aged sybarite who acts with feline determination to prevent his weak protege from straying into further adventures with women. There is no attempt to mask the homosexual relationship, for it is basic to the play's conflict.

"In Sidney Kingsley's 'Night Life' there is a character—a glamorous debauched actress—who could not suppress her craving for other women.

"In 'The Emperor.' a play about Nero, the German playwright. Hermann Gressieker, makes unvarnished references to the depraved Caesar's taste for boys as well as girls.

"And, finally, in 'Rattle Of A Simple Man,' Percy, the inhibited Manchester man, soon reveals that his mind is on his mother and that he is happier wearing an apron."

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