Irish filmmaker/writer Shaun Dunne first came onto Queerguru’s radar when his film How To Tell A Secret was released last year. It was yet another story about HIV and the AIDS pandemic. We have viewed more films about this than we care to remember. However once in a blue moon, a feature film comes along that looks at the whole HIV phenomenon in a different context and is both inspiring and totally uplifting. How To Tell A Secret was one such film. It’s a compelling hybrid documentary that for once does not deal with the 80s and 90s but focuses on how millennials are dealing with their HIV diagnoses in contemporary Ireland.
Now Dunne is back with ‘This Solution’ a documentary-theatre hybrid that he has written and is directing that is based on a true story about the gay porn industry.
The show fuses together real-life testimony and artistic expression and the multidisciplinary production includes captivating new music, dance, live visuals and choreography while considering themes of consent, contracts, regret, and rebirth.
THIS SOLUTION 11 – 15 Oct Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/
Labels: 2023, drama, Dublin Theatre Project, gay porn industry, Shaun Dunne, The Solution
