Izzy Parriss Productions and Three Sisters Productions in Association with the Arcola Theatre present the World Premiere of
by Siofra Dromgoole
directed by Izzy Parriss
July 16 - August 3 2024
Monday - Saturday at 7pm | Saturday matinees at 3pm
They’re on the same page. It’s just sex. It doesn’t have to be complicated.
Anyway, it wouldn’t work. He hates kissing in the morning. She killed her guinea pigs. He doesn’t speak to his dad.
They’re totally different people.
It’s just sex.
“I’m just worried because I think what I’m being turned on by is the fact that you’re imagining a stable future with me, whereas what you’re being turned on by is the potential potency of your own sperm.”
A lyrical, charged, sharply observed and genuinely erotic two-hander, After Sex follows the trajectory of a couple, told almost entirely through post-coital scenes. It’s about how the sex we have can change us: a love-song to connection, and to people’s capacity for changing each other’s lives.
After Sex is supported using public funding by Arts Council England
After Sex has partnered with Positive East, a registered charity that has been on the forefront of HIV service and care for over three decades
Cast
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Azan stars as series regular Eddie Suleman in the hugely popular ITV series VAN DER VALK alongside Marc Warren and most recently was seen in a guest role in ITVX’s new comedy COUNT ABDULLA. His further television credits include; MOOD (BBC/Bonafide), HOPE STREET (BBC/Britbox), CASUALTY (BBC), and DOCTORS (BBC) Film roles include; WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (Instinct Productions) and NOW AND THEN (BFI). Most recently, he starred in the Omnibus production & tour of the powerful one-man show 10 NIGHTS by Shahid Iqbal Khan directed by Samir Bhamra. Before this, he was at the National Theatre playing the roles of Daulat & British Policeman in their stunning production of THE FATHER & THE ASSASSIN. Azan played the role of Ferdinand at Shakespeare’s Globe in their latest production of THE TEMPEST, directed by Diane Page. His other theatre credits include; CONSPIRACY (New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly Edinburgh), THIS ISN’T A TRUE STORY (Almeida Theatre), CACOPHONY (Yard Theatre) & NEVER SWIM ALONE (Etcetera Theatre). Azan is also an award-winning writer. His debut play DAYTIME DEEWANE (Half Moon & Tour) won the 2023 Offie Award for Best TYA Writing. He is currently being mentored by Roy Williams as part of Hampstead Theatre's INSPIRE cohort. Azan is the founder of DEEN & DUNYA, a platform for Muslim voices to be celebrated through poetry, music and performance – they have had enormous success to date selling out the Bush Theatre, Royal Court & The Globe. Azan trained with the Bush Theatre Young Company and Almeida Young Company.
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Antonia Salib is a British-Egyptian actor. Her credits include HIJACK (Apple TV+), MOON KNIGHT (Disney+), THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (Duchess Theatre), BLACK ICE (Theatre 503), BIOSPHERE (Pleasance Theatre), THE FUNERAL (Kings Head Theatre) and KNOW YOU WELL (Southwark Playhouse).
Creatives
Siofra Dromgoole Writer
Siofra Dromgoole has written four plays to critical acclaim and sold-out performances across the UK, London and Australia: Ripe Tomato (2023) Baby, What Blessings (2019-2022) If It Didn’t Matter (2019) and Walk Swiftly and With Purpose (2018) She is co-artistic director of theatre company Three Sisters.
Stella Moss Intimacy Director
Stella Moss is a London based critically acclaimed Intimacy Coordinator & Director. Known for her work for both on stage and screen, Stella’s approach to intimacy is defined as intuitive, authentic and collaborative, prioritising an inclusive representation of intimacy. Compassion, communication and humour is at the core of all of her work. Stella’s international background and upbringing has shaped her understanding and interest in non-verbal communication and physical verbal cues, which continues to influence her work in creating nuanced portrayals of intimacy. Stella’s background both as an award-winning producer, and previously as a performer, has informed how she navigates the role alongside each department and production. Her previous credits in intimacy coordination & direction include work in Feature Film, TV, Music Video & Theatre with clients including Iconoclast, Lowkey Films, OB42, Pulse Films, Thimble Films, Tightrope Theatre, Goldsmiths University, Edge Hill University, MetFilm School and more.
Helen Noir Music and Sound Designer
Helen Noir is a London-based soprano who combines performance work with composing, orchestration, sound design and production, creating soundtracks for multiple film and theatre projects Helen is also resident composer of The AIDS Plays Project and a long-term member of cult performance art group Theo Adams Company.
Simeon Miller Lighting Designer
Simeon has worked as a Lighting Designer since he graduated from Mountview Academy in 2010. He works across theatre, dance, musicals, ‘gig theatre’ and devised work. He enjoys contributing to new writing, especially socially and politically conscious work which amplifies oppressed and radical voices. Selected recent credits include: Brief Encounter (Royal Exchange); Silence (UK Tour); Cowbois (RSC and Royal Court); Pass It On (Bush Theatre); As We Face The Sun (Bush Theatre); Alice In Wonderland (Liverpool Everyman and Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Sun Shines For Everyone (Lyric Hammersmith); The Book of Will (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Bolton Octagon & Shakespeare North Playhouse); Ruckus (Southwark Playhouse & Summerhall, Edinburgh); Jekyll and Hyde (Derby Theatre & Queen's Theatre Hornchurch); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre); Follow the Signs (Soho Theatre); The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street Theatre); Project Dictator (New Diorama Theatre); An Adventure (Bolton Octagon); Metamorphoses (The Globe); The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith); Subject Mater (Edinburgh Fringe); Black Holes (international Tour); and High Rise eState of Mind (UK Tour). His full portfolio and credits can be found online at www.simeon.lighting.
Pip Terry Set Consultant
Pip Terry is a set and costume designer and scenic artist. She graduated from Wimbledon College of Art with a degree in Theatre Design in 2020. Pip won the Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2021 and worked as the Kiln Theatre’s Resident Assistant Designer throughout 2022. She is currently designing My English Persian Kitchen (Traverse Theatre/Soho Theatre) and a schools tour of The Shivers with New Diorama Theatre. Credits: As Assistant: Ali The Musical (Broadway); Nachtland (Young Vic); A Christmas Carol (Finnish National Opera); Black Love, Girl on an Altar, The Darkest Part of the Night, Handbagged (Kiln Theatre); Kerry Jackson (National Theatre). As Associate: The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre); Splintered (Soho Theatre); Pinocchio (Unicorn Theatre); The Tempest, Hamnet (RSC); Once On This Island (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre). As Designer: Diva: Live From Hell (Kings Head/Underbelly);The Sex Ed Musical (Schools Tour, Ice and Fire Theatre company); Playmaking Festival 2023 (RSC); Rise (Kiln Theatre, Young Company); Sticks and Stones (Tristan Bates); The Hunting of the Snark, The House at the Centre of the World (Rose Theatre, Youth Theatre); Ad Nauseam (Lyric Hammersmith’s Evolution Festival). Pip has also worked on Disney’s Frozen (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre), Cabaret (the Kit Kat Club), and Death of England (National Theatre) as a scenic artist.
Stephanie Burrell Movement Consultant
Stephanie Burrell is an artist who works within dance and performance. Originally from Manchester, she trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Contemporary Dance before going onto study Spanish and German at King's College London. Stephanie's performance credits span between London, Berlin and Mexico City. Stephanie has performed for Hallomai Dance, West Green House Opera Festival and Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin. Her choreography work has seen her make and facilitate works for screen, stage and installation. Her credits include Freight Theatre, Phoebe Von Held Brecht installation at Raven Row and more recently music videos for Shivani Day and British Latin artist Sophie Castillo. Stephanie also makes her own physical theatre work with collaborator Erin Hughes under Birthday Fish Theatre. 2024 will see their Edinburgh Fringe debut.
Nadine Elise Muncey Co-Movement Director
Nadine is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer and movement director. Graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, she performed works by Joss Arnott, Hubert Essakow, Sonia Rafferty and Hofesh Shechter. She went on to study for an MA in Dance Performance, performing works by Karole Armitage, Marina Collard and Hetain Patel. She has choreographed and performed Surfacing, Resurfacing, a site-specific work at John Maine’s Arena, as well as co-creating and performing Landscape No. 8 at Resolution Festival 2022. As part of Resolution 2023, she performed in Gathering Clouds by Petronella Wiehahn and premiered her own work titled soft surge - a contemporary dance work that she is continuing research for. Nadine has performed works by Julian Nichols for Bodies in Action Dance, Extended Play and Róisıń Whelan Dance and has walked for fashion designer Izzy McCormac as part of her Jinal collection at Central Saint Martins. Nadine has also been involved in music videos for artists Cryalot, Rokia Kone, Henri, MAVICA and Dua Lipa.
Rachel Laird Co-Movement Director
Rachel is a freelance dance artist from Scotland and trained at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School for her Postgraduate, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for her BA (HONS) degree and prior to this at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and National Youth Dance Company of Scotland.
Since being freelance Rachel has performed for Highly Sprung, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Peut-Etre Theatre, Next Door Dance, Tess Letham, Roisin O’Brien, The Natashas Project, Page One theatre and A Truefitt Collective among others. In 2019 she co-founded Dance theatre company Sliding Doors Collective. Rachel has taught throughout Scotland, England, Copenhagen and China as a teacher independently as well as representing performance companies as a contemporary dance teacher, dancing mindfulness facilitator and yoga/meditation teacher. She also teaches adult beginner dance and contemporary.