'A Patriot for Me' Is Malodorous and Shocking Play

By PETER BELLAMY Beware, drama lovers!

sounds like a sickening cessfull members. pool.

triot for Me."

[tors to appear as homosexualsjclosed in New York. Whether which opens at the Music Hall' Perhaps nothing more overt because their agents told them New York's critics were so tonight, to get rid of the foul and shocking about about male it would hurt their image." naive they didn't know what stench of a play like " A PaA theatrical garbage scow! INDEED, to avoid a ban by homosexuals has ever been Devine said that was "nonmay set sail for these Ameri-England's censor, the Royaliseen on a stage. sense" and that playing the was going on or so jaded they didn't care has never been excan shores from England any Court Theater, where it openThe production has what role of a homosexual was day now with a play specified June 30, has been turned Philip Benjamin of the New "simply a matter of good act-plained. cally about male homosexuals. into a private club. Only club York Times describes asing. It is called "A Patriot for members may buy tickets."shattering and disturbing One would assume his pres-to the obscenity on stage is Me" and, although playwright Membership is easy. Tickets love scenes between men, and ence in the play will not imstill the wonder John Osborne describes it as are 70 cents for students and the high point of the play is approve the public image of agents, actors and other news"an operetta with music," it associate members, and $3 for costume ball in Vienna where Maximillian Schell, the film papermen.

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all the women turn out to be star. men."

BUT THEIR failure to refer

wonder of press

Other plays like the nauseatJohn Eaton-Terry, the press ing "The Toilet" make referGEORGE DEVINE, who officer for the society producences to homosexuality, but plays the baron in red wig, a ing the play, told Benjamin until "A Patriot for Me," the tiara, a gown and long white that Osborne received many subject has never been so degloves, is the artistic director offers to produce the play in tailed. of the English stage company the United States. involved.

He had a bit of difficulty," he told Benjamin, "getting ac-

IT IS QUITE probable that if "No Patriot for Me" ever comes to New York not one! newspaper critic there will make reference to its perverse theme.

Not one of them hinted at the pornographic act performed on stage in "Tiny Alice." Albert Albee's degenerate play which recently

It takes a lot of musical comedies like "Hello Dolly!".