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Three young people sit on a red sofa with a package. They look gloomy while confetti is snowing down on them. Behind them is a spatial construction in which two other people sit in the red light.
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Three young people sit on a red sofa with a package. They look gloomy while confetti is snowing down on them. Behind them is a spatial construction in which two other people sit in the red light.
© Ste Murray

Dead Centre

Good Sex

The Summer Festival invites you to a theatre festival with big actors - and a tricky play about intimacy and the art of theatre.

Tickets:

28 / 16 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, 50 % conc. with Festivalkarte)

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Thursday

8/24/23

9:00 PM

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Friday

8/25/23

9:00 PM

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Saturday

8/26/23

9:00 PM

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Sunday

8/27/23

8:00 PM

Dead Centre make innovative theatre, and have produced work at Burgtheater Vienna and Schaubühne Berlin, among others. With GOOD SEX, they address the question of what conditions are necessary to create intimacy on stage. The Dead Centre duo Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel (a writer on Oona Doherty’s monumental Summer Festival opening NAVY BLUE in 2022) thus meditate on the broader public debate about intimacy and its limits in the context of #MeToo. Intimacy coordinators are by now standard on film sets. For GOOD SEX there is one live on stage, to help the actors tell a story about desire, infidelity and loneliness. She is needed, because every evening, two new actors meet who don’t know the play and have not rehearsed. They improvise under the guidance of the entire Dead Centre stage team. GOOD SEX is thus both a play about intimacy, and about the art of illusion and acting in theatre, with a cast who will be known to the audience from shows like Tatort or Four Blocks, the ensemble of Berliner Schaubühne or the cinema. An evening that is “dangerously alive and unfolds with cleverly inventive wit” (The Guardian).

Portrait photo of a young Black man wearing a light denim jacket, white T-shirt, black cap and a dark blue jumper tied around his chest. He has a light three-day beard, bushy eyebrows and smooth skin.
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Portrait photo of a young white woman with reddish, straight but voluminous hair and blue eyes. She laughs with her mouth open. Her shining teeth are visible. She wears a black woollen jacket and leans forward slightly.
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Portrait photo of a young pale woman with straight dark hair, brown eyes and red lips looking melancholically to the side. She has a dark blue jacket thrown over her shoulders.
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Portrait photo of a white man with short dark blond hair and beard. He holds a hand to his head as if tucking a strand of hair behind his ear. He is wearing a black denim jacket.
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Portrait photo of a young white woman with long blond hair. She leans with her back against a blue wall and turns sideways to the camera with a serious look.
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Portrait photo of a white man with dark short hair and slight receding hairline. He wears a white T-shirt and stands in front of a concrete wall with a serious look and leaning slightly forward.
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Portrait photo of a white woman with dark blue shoulder-length curls and pink made-up lips. She wears a black blazer and looks seriously into the camera.
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Malick Bauer

Lisa Hagmeister

Maryam Zaree

Paul Behren

Pheline Roggan

Mark Waschke

Anne Schäfer

Bardo Böhlefeld


Text Dead Centre with Emilie Pine Director Ben Kidd Dramaturgy Bush Moukarzel Production Killian Coyle Associate Production Mags Keohane With Liv O'Donoghue, Alexandra Conlon, Barry McKiernan Guest Actors Malick Bauer, Paul Behren, Bardo Böhlefeld, Lisa Hagmeister, Pheline Roggan, Anne Schäfer, Mark Waschke, Maryam Zaree Set Design Aedín Cosgrove Lighting Design Stephen Dodd Sound Design, Music Jenny O'Malley Costume Design Mae Leahy Intimacy Coordination Sue Mythen Sound Engineer Kevin Gleeson Combat Direction Ciaran O'Grady Production Manager Gavin Kennedy Stage Crew Ciaran Murphy, Emma-Kate O'Reilly Directorial Assistant Eftychia Spyridaki

Supported by Arts Council, Culture Ireland.