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), To Be a Machine (Version 2.0) 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.
Good Sex premiered in 2022 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Touring is supported by Culture Ireland.
Presented in partnership with Irish Arts Center
Photo Credit: Ste Murray
1hr 25min. No intermission.
November 5th, 2025
November 8th, 2025
Text by: Dead Centre with Emilie Pine
Director: Ben Kidd
Dramaturg: Bush Moukarzel
Producer: Tilly Taylor
Assistant Director: Eftychia Spyridaki
Featuring: Liv O’Donoghue, Alexandra Conlon, Barry McKiernan
Onstage Crew: Ciaran Murphy, Emma-Kate O’Reilly
Stage Design: Aedín Cosgrove
Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd
Sound Design & Music: Jenny O’Malley
Costume Design: 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
IRELAND
Acclaimed makers of innovative theatre Dead Centre, with award-winning writer Emilie Pine, present a sublimely funny love story for a loveless age.
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 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 September 2025.
“Raw, unsettling, seductive, provocative and very, very funny …” — ★★★★★ Irish Times
“Playing with expectations of reality and theatrical illusion, this feels dangerously live ...” —The Guardian
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