Morgan Spector, Elliot Page, Constance Wu, John Cameron Mitchell, More Will Explore Good Sex at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts
Brandon Flynn and Chris Perfetti will also be part of a rotating cast performing the collaboration between Irish theatre company Dead Centre and novelist Emilie Pine.
Morgan Spector
The award-winning Irish theatre company Dead Centre will return to New York next month with Good Sex, a collaboration with award-winning novelist and essayist Emilie Pine that will play four performances at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts with a rotating cast.
Currently scheduled to perform are Tony winner John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Oscar nominee Elliot Page (Juno) November 6 at 7:30 PM; Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age) and Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians, Little Shop of Horrors) November 7 at 7:30 PM; and Brandon Flynn (13 Reasons Why) and SAG Award winner Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary) November 8 at 7:30 PM. Performers for November 5 will be announced at a later date.
Ben Kidd directs the production with dramaturgy by Bush Moukarzel.
The nightly company also includes Liv O’Donoghue, Alexandra Conlon, and Barry
McKiernan plus on stage crew members Ciarán Murphy and Eugenia
Genunchi. Tilly Taylor is the producer.
Good Sex, according to press notes, makes “intimacy coordinating its main event in a performance that asks, ‘How do you have sex onstage?’” To try and find an answer, two different performers, who have neither rehearsed together nor read the script, will “tell a story of desire, betrayal and loneliness.” To help and guide them, they will be joined on stage by an intimacy director, trained in the art of teaching people how to touch. Audiences, press notes continue, “can rest assured that the sex will be safe. It will be consensual. And it will be good.”
The creative team also includes stage designer Aedín Cosgrove, lighting designer Stephen Dodd, sound designer and composer Jenny O’Malley, costume designer Mae Leahy, and intimacy director Abigail Kessel. Original intimacy choreography, protocols, and processes are by Sue Mythen.
Gavin Kennedy is the production manager, and Olivia Drennan is the stage manager with assistant station management by Anika Kidd. Special guest casting is by Caparelliotis Casting.
Good Sex premiered in 2022 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Good Sex is part of Powerhouse: International, a new festival featuring performance works from around the world through December 13. It is conceived and curated by Tony-winning producer and Artistic Director David Binder. For a complete list of upcoming programming click here.
For tickets, which begin at $30, click here.