An actor got the final word when a rude audience member shouted abuse at a gay kiss during a play last night (31 July).

When the unexpected male kiss took place, the heckler gave a loud ‘tut-tut’ and then shouted out ‘makes me sick’.

But Mark Edel-Hunt, who plays Gill in the play, was unphased. He just put a note on the stage at the end of the performance reading ‘Some people are GAY, get over it’.

It all happened at the St James Theatre in Victoria, London, the first newly built theater in the capital in 30 years.

The play is The American Plan. It tells the story of the daughter a wealthy German-Jewish refugee who falls in love with a handsome stranger against the backdrop of the Catskill Mountains near New York in the 1960s.

By American playwright Richard Greenberg, the play debuted in 1990 in New York and has been revived by the British Theatre Royal Bath who took it to the St James Theatre.

Edel-Hunt’s response showed he had learned his lines from Stonewall, Britain’s leading gay campaign organization, who created the famous ‘get over it’ slogan.

Andy Wasley, from Stonewall, said: ‘Given that Richard Greenberg’s most famous play is about a gay man, whoever complained about the kiss proved themselves to be as ignorant about theatre as they are about the reality of modern life.

‘It’s great to see a spirited response to such offensive behavior.’

The play is running until 10 August at the 312-seat St James Theatre.