Review: Good Sex, Battersea Arts Centre

Good Sex, Battersea Arts Centre. Photo by Ste Murray Actors who have not rehearsed or seen the script and are being fed lines through an earpiece isn’t something new to stage performance, but in the context of Good Sex at the Battersea Arts Centre it feels fresh and different. An intimacy co-ordinator played by Liv O’Donoghue guides two actors through a story that involves ex-lovers drawn together after several years and reminiscing about their relationship. The actors were Jack Gleeson and Phia Saban the night I saw it. Stage managers, played by Maeve O’Mahony and Barry McKiernan, sit in a glass box feeding the lines. The stage starts off bare, and while the actors build the story, a stage crew build the apartment around them. Credit to the stage crew, Ciarán Murphy and Eugenia Genunchi, because they play more of a role than stage construction and handing the actors props. And so do the stage managers who don’t simply feed lines or stay tucked away in the box. And that’s part of what…

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