Test

In San Francisco in 1985, news of screen legend Rock Hudson’s illness is across the news and the gay community is starting to come to terms with the fact that they are especially vulnerable to a deadly new disease. That might well impact on the lives of a professional dance troupe in which both “Frankie” (Scott Marlowe) and “Todd” (Matthew Risch) work. The latter, older and more experienced man, has made it clear that he supplements his thirty week a year income with some extracurricular activities and this doesn’t sit so well with the anxious “Frankie” so initially he keeps him at arms length. Then, with an important performance looming, the pair start to bond a little and we start to explore something of what makes them tick. Aside from the fact that both of these actors, and many of the supporting cast, are clearly lithe and adept dancers there is also quite a compelling effort provided by Marlowe as a lad who is used to having fairly regular sex and who is now nervous as hell that he might have contracted the virus. On a broader level, some of his friends are erring on the side of condom-caution, others carrying on regardless and some abstaining altogether, so what should he responsibly do? Medical science is still on the back foot with regard to HIV and it’s only when they develop a blood test that it becomes possible to alert potential sufferers of their positivity. Might…

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