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How do you have sex on stage? How do you even have sex?
To try and find an answer, each night, two brand new performers tell a story of desire, betrayal and loneliness. They have never rehearsed together or read the script. They are strangers.
But they are not alone—to help and guide them they are joined on stage by an Intimacy Director, trained in the art of teaching people how to touch. So you can rest assured that the sex will be safe. It will be consensual. And it will be good.
Award-winning Irish theater company Dead Centre returns to New York after performances at the Abrons Arts Center (Lippy, Obie Award winner), BAM (Hamnet), and the Irish Arts Center (Chekhov’s First Play) with a collaboration with award-winning novelist and essayist Emilie Pine. Born out of the pandemic, when touching was a transgressive act and our bodies were sites of sickness, Good Sex is a love story for a loveless age.
Good Sex will feature a rotating lineup of stars that includes:
Wednesday, November 5
Carla Gugino (“The Haunting of Hill House”) and Tony & Emmy Award Nominee Arian Moayed (“Succession”)
Thursday, November 6
Tony Award winner John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno)
Friday, November 7
Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age) and Golden Globe Award Nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians)
Saturday, November 8
Brandon Flynn (13 Reasons Why) and SAG Award winner Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary)
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Join us November 7 after the show for:
A Conversation with Esther Perel
A conversation with renowned psychotherapist and bestselling author Esther Perel and Nayeema Raza, host of the Smart Girl Dumb Questions podcast, to explore questions raised by Dead Centre’s Good Sex and to bring their distinctive expertise on intimacy, desire, and human connection.
★★★★★
“Raw, unsettling, seductive, provocative and very, very funny”
—Irish Times
“Playing with expectations of reality and theatrical illusion, this feels dangerously live”
—The Guardian
Running Time
85 min (no intermission)
Content Note
The show contains simulated sex (no nudity), strong language and themes of a mature nature.
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About the Company
About the Artist
Dead Centre is an award-winning theatre company based in Dublin Ireland made up of Artistic Directors Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel and Producer Tilly Taylor. Dead Centre’s previous productions include LIPPY, Chekhov’s First Play, Hamnet, Beckett’s Room, To Be a Machine (Version 1.0), The Interpretation of Dreams, and Illness as Metaphor. Their work has premiered in Dublin, Vienna, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Gothenburg and toured the world including to the USA, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, France, Estonia, Holland, Romania, Italy, and UK.
Text by Dead Centre with Emilie Pine
Director: Ben Kidd
Dramaturg: Bush Moukarzel
Producer: Tilly Taylor
Featuring: Liv O’Donoghue, Alexandra Conlon, Barry McKiernan
On stage Crew: Ciarán Murphy, Eugenia Genunchi
Stage Designer: Aedín Cosgrove
Lighting Designer: Stephen Dodd
Sound Design & Music: Jenny O’Malley
Costume Designer: Mae Leahy
Intimacy Directors: Abigail Kessel & Sue Mythen
Production Manager: Gavin Kennedy
Stage Manager: Olivia Drennan
ASM: Anika Kidd
Relighter: Sarah Timmins
Audio Engineer: Eóin Murphy
Special Guest Casting by Caparelliotis Casting | Dave Caparelliotis
Sponsors
Good Sex premiered in 2022 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Supported by Culture Ireland.
Presented in partnership with Irish Arts Center
Photo credit
Ste Murray