Good Sex

By Dead Centre with Emilie Pine

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. ‍Complete casting to be announced in September 2025.

Presented in partnership with Irish Arts Center. First presented at Dublin Theatre Festival 2022.

“Raw, unsettling, seductive, provocative and very, very funny”—IRISH TIMES

Presented with generous support from Culture Ireland.