The theatre, which has a wonderful tiled interior, was the West End home of Joe Orton's Loot in the Sixties. Nowadays they don't seem to be prevalent or maybe it's just that I'm distracted by all those Italian students.Īcross the Circus is the glittering world of the Criterion. In the 18th and 19th centuries, 'Mollies' and 'Marjories', as male prostitutes were known, were common in the area.
Rent boys were plying their trade here long before the arrival of Eros.
