Dead Centre

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).