Programme 2023

Dead Centre

Good Sex

Programma soort: Main programme
Genre: Theatre
Herkomst: Dublin, Ireland
Extra info: Dutch premiere

Touching a complete stranger on a stage just got harder. To do it right, should we avoid it completely, or talk about it and get better at it? Good Sex isn’t afraid to bare its teeth at our fear of sex, and we can’t help but grin back.

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Entrance

€ 16,-

Duration

90 minutes

Language

English

Location

Grand Theatre

Accessibility

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Consent is sexy

How do you have sex on a stage? How do you even pretend to do it? After #metoo, Harvey Weinstein and social distancing, touching someone’s body can feel dangerous. Especially live on stage. Yet Dead Centre, together with award-winning novelist Emilie Pine, dare to tread this taboo in such a cleverly funny way that you can’t help but take it seriously.

Every night, two brand new performers will play out a story of desire, betrayal and loneliness without one single rehearsal. They are complete strangers, needing to navigate each other’s and their own boundaries, while you watch it all unfold live on stage for the very first time. But don’t worry, they are not alone – an intimacy coordinator will softly guide them through the process, teaching them (and us) how to touch. It will be safe sex. Consensual sex. And most importantly, Good Sex.

The after-talk after the performance of August 19th unfortunately has been canceled.

This performance falls under the programme theme Time & Identity. When you visit 3 or more performances from one theme, you receive a 10% discount on your tickets. Read more here.

Raw, unsettling, seductive, provocative and very, very funny… turns the recent Covid past into an urgent interrogation of both our bodies and the nature of theatrical illusion.

Author: Irish Times

Thursday 17 August

Available times

19:30

Friday 18 August

Available times

19:30

Saturday 19 August

Available times

19:30

Sunday 20 August

Available times

19:30

About the artist

Award-winning company Dead Centre is a much-loved guest on Noorderzon. After Chekhov’s First Play (2016) and Hamnet (2017), they return to Noorderzon by making heavy subjects light-hearted in a way that only Dead Centre can. The company was founded in 2012 and is currently based in Dublin, Ireland, under the direction of Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd. They have since toured the world to places like New York, Hong Kong, Berlin and many more. For Good Sex they have paired up with Emilie Pine, who has been described by British newspaper The Guardian as one of the best debut novelists of 2022.

Credits

Every evening two new actors enter the stage, without having rehearsed together once.
With: Marcel Hensema, Lot van Lunteren, Astrid van Eck, Martijn de Rijk, Marijn Nieuwerf, Fabian Claes Jansen, Nadia Amin and Marleen Scholten.

Supported by Culture Ireland.

Funded by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Development supported by Pavilion Theatre, and Field Arts.