John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, SHORTBUS tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
All the characters converge on Shortbus, a modern-day weekly salon in the Parisian Gertrude Stein tradition. The salon takes place in the Brooklyn loft/domicile of host Justin Bond, who carefully fosters a communitarian sanctuary of art, music, politics and sex. It's in the shelter of this sanctuary that all our characters begin to understand how to answer the question: “Am I to be alone or am I not?”
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