XXX, a new stage play now showing in London and based on the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom, has, er, aroused the interest of Scotland Yard...because the show is said to include live sexual performances.
The play opened April 22 in Hammersmith's Riverside Studios, according to the Evening Standard, but included "some of the most explicit sex scenes ever seen in Britain".
Those, the paper said, included a man from the audience dragged on stage so a female cast member could perform oral sex on him. The play is performed by a four-member Spanish troupe, La Fura Dels Baus.
Sex in public is a crime in England, and the Home Office told the Standard the theater and the cast were likely to be prosecuted. But it's up to the police to decide whose ultimate responsibility the play is, the Home Office noted. "In terms of law it does not make any difference if it was a member of the cast or a member of the audience who was involved. Sex in public is an offence and they could be prosecuted," a Home Office spokeswoman told the paper.
