Martha is a brassy, middle-aged bisexual whose husband has forced her into Dublin’s thriving swingers scene. Traumatised by walking in on him and his Brazilian lover, she has decided to purge herself physically to purge herself emotionally. Amy is a southside career woman who has recently discovered that her husband of four years has been sleeping around with other men. In a health farm where the winter vomiting bug is forcing everyone to isolate in their rooms, we are introduced to two female protagonists. CURIOSITYįirst is Curiosity, a comedic two-hander written and directed by Amanda Brunker, which explores issues of female sex and sexuality in a light-hearted and inoffensive manner. The first focuses on female sexual identity and the second on notions of what it means to be a “real” man. A day spent reviewing two of the main offerings in the first week of the 19th International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is broken into two even halves.
