A spellbinding tale about an actor, a painter and their muse, "Venus of Dublin was inspired by a famous portrait of the actor Edmund Kean that hangs in London's Garrick Club. In it, Kean is depicted as a Huron prince, Alanienouidet, wearing a costume which the chiefs of a small community near Quebec City gave him when he visited in 1826. Five years later, while on tour in Dublin, the once great, ever-untamable stage performer Edmund Kean hires a local renegade to paint his portrait. As Kean relives his encounters with the Huron of Quebec, the spirits of the wilderness inhabit him and unleash a mystical and surprising portrait of desire.
