Movies: Light House Cinema, Dublin 1

And what Muriel's Wedding teaches us about friendship, sex and disability

Light House Cinema
Smithfield Square, Dublin 1
lighthousecinema.ie

I have to laugh because seconds before I began writing this a breakfast TV show phoned me to ask if I would be available to discuss sex and disability for a segment this week. The call lasted 32 seconds because I’ve finally learned to say no thank you to situations I don’t fancy being in anymore.

The topics of sex and disability were once upon a time my bread and butter. To be more precise, the avoidance of covering those topics was my bread and butter. I was always so aware that by becoming a spokesperson for that subject was to make me some sort of expert in sex and disability, which would mean that commissioning me to write about or speak on the matter imposed some expectations on the actual state of my own personal love life. No thank you.

To sum up my 2017 play Why Won’t You Have Sex With Me?: How would I know why people aren’t having sex with me? Perhaps you should be speaking to them and not prying in my life. That was the point of the play. No need for you to ever see it now.

I maintain that stance, but that doesn’t mean I won’t ever write about it again. When or if I do, it will be entirely within my own safe boundaries. But for now, we have Muriel’s Wedding.