Dead Centre

14/01/2026

Announcing Doris de Vries as Dead Centre’s Associate Artist for 2026! ✨

Doris de Vries is a director, dramaturg and theatre maker. She is a director of Gift Horse Theatre, with whom she has directed four plays to date. Her 2025 Dublin Fringe Festival show don’t copy me (copy) was awarded the George Fitzmaurice Fringe Award and she made her Edinburgh Fringe directorial debut in 2025 with Swiping Right by Sophie Anna Veelenturf.

She has assistant directed Ivo van Hove, Leopold Witte, and Olivier Diepenhorst, and works as a dramaturg for emerging artists like David Roos (NL) and Dominic O’Brien (IE).

Across 2026, Doris will develop her creative practice through mentorship with Dead Centre’s Artistic Directors and immersion in the company’s creation processes. She will be Assistant Director on a new Dead Centre production, take part in the company’s development workshops, and hold a workshop on a new project of her own, fully supported and produced by Dead Centre.

Welcome Doris!

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Our Associate Artist programme is made possible with funding from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and support from field:arts.

Image 1: Doris de Vries, photo by Jilly McGrath
Image 2: don’t copy me (copy), photo by Jilly McGrath
Image 3: War and Peace, photo by Jilly McGrath
Image 4: Swiping Right, photo by Koen Broos

21/11/2025

A reminder that applications are open for the position of General Manager at Dead Centre - you have three days left to apply!

Full details can be found at https://www.deadcentre.org/work-with-us

We're hiring!

Dead Centre is seeking a part-time General Manager to form a key part of the team delivering world class theatrical productions both at home in Ireland and on tour.

Applications close on 24 November, and full details can be found at www.deadcentre.org/work-with-us

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Photo: Lisa Kelly, Kate Finegan and Dylan Tonge Jones in Deaf Republic by Dead Centre. Image by Johan Persson, Set by Jeremy Herbert, Lighting by Azusa Ono, Costume by Mae Leahy.

21/11/2025

Announcing Brecht’s First Play by Dead Centre at Hong Kong Arts Festival 2026!

“I admit: this play is lacking in wisdom.” - Bertolt Brecht

Brecht wrote his first play, Baal, when he was just 20. It tells the story of an obnoxious, violent, debauched anti-hero; if the character existed today, he would be cancelled.

So that’s we’ll try to do. Get rid of him. Blur him out. Because the only responsible way to stage Baal is by removing Baal.

🗓️ 19 - 22 March 2026
📍 Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
🎟️ Advance Booking now open at the link in our bio

Adapted and directed by Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, Brecht’s First Play will be performed by Beijing Repertory Theater.

Stage Design by Han Jiang 韩江
Video Design by Sebastien Dupouey
Sound Design by An Jing 安静

Brecht’s First Play is commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Festival 香港藝術節 and co-produced by Hong Kong Arts Festival, Beijing Repertory Theater, Tempest Projects and Holland Festival

28/10/2025

We're hiring!

Dead Centre is seeking a part-time General Manager to form a key part of the team delivering world class theatrical productions both at home in Ireland and on tour.

Applications close on 24 November, and full details can be found at www.deadcentre.org/work-with-us

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Photo: Lisa Kelly, Kate Finegan and Dylan Tonge Jones in Deaf Republic by Dead Centre. Image by Johan Persson, Set by Jeremy Herbert, Lighting by Azusa Ono, Costume by Mae Leahy.

05/10/2025

A three-show day today.

We say goodbye to Dublin Theatre Festival with the final 2 performances of Deaf Republic. (Keep checking festival website for returned tickets.)

Meanwhile at Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, The Education of Rudolf Steiner returns for its first performance of the 25/26 season.

Many thanks to The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, The Royal Court Theatre, Zoo Co., Culture Ireland, Complicité, and field:arts.

05/10/2025

★★★★★ for Deaf Republic from The Irish Times!

“Deaf Republic is avant-garde theatre at its most exciting: daring, intricate and, above all, beautiful, full of images that seem plucked straight from the dark unconscious.”

Dublin Theatre Festival
The Royal Court Theatre

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Dead Centre turn Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry into complex, layered, hallucinatory drama

29/09/2025

A limited amount of tickets have just been released for Deaf Republic at Dublin Theatre Festival - get them while you can!

🗓 2 - 5 Oct
📍 The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
🎟️ Booking: https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/event/deaf-republic/

14/03/2025

Toi toi toi to the team at Schauspiel Stuttgart who are playing The Education of Rudolf Steiner to a sold out audience tonight. 🙌

07/02/2025

Dead Centre joue en français! Today we have two shows running for French speaking audiences across France and Belgium!

🌸 Good S*x at Théâtre de Liège - final performance today at 7pm

🎟 To Be a Machine (Version 2.0) at Comédie - CDN de Reims running today and tomorrow as part of FARaway, Festival des Arts à Reims

Both productions are kindly supported by Culture Ireland

02/02/2025

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ for Good S*x at Théâtre de Liège in Le Soir - congratulations to all the team!

"What if, in life, nothing is real, and everything is just choreography? What if this story of consent went beyond the physical and invited us to say “no” more often in life, not just to unwanted s*x, but to everything that gets in the way?

In short, Good S*x is a piece that's not only fun to watch... it's also heady stuff."

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"Ne joue-t-on pas tous un rôle? Et si, dans l’existence, rien n’était réel, et tout n’était que chorégraphie? Et si cette histoire de consentement dépassait le cadre physique et nous invitait à dire plus souvent « non » dans la vie, pas juste au s*xe non désiré, mais à tout ce qui nous entrave?

Bref, Good S*x est une pièce où on prend son pied... mais aussi sa tête."

Read the full review at: https://www.lesoir.be/651930/article/2025-01-30/good-s*x-forcement-genant-le-s*xe-au-theatre-pas-si-vite

30/01/2025

Comment fait-on l’amour sur un plateau de cinéma ? Ou sur les planches d’un théâtre ? D’ailleurs, comment fait-on l’amour ? Bien connue du Théâtre de Liège, la compagnie irlandaise Dead Centre (Beckett’s room, To be a machine, Le Silence) revient avec la création francophone d...

30/01/2025

We’re so happy to have worked with Théâtre de Liege to bring the French language version of Good S*x to stage!

A huge thank you from us to all the team in Liege, who have been so incredible to work with, and Culture Ireland for supporting the work.

👀 See the show at Théâtre de Liège until 7 Feb
🎟️ Tickets at the link our bio

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𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐱

Avec Emilie Maquest, Nicolas Payet & Josépha Sini

et Madeleine Baudot, Angèle Baux, Habib Ben Tanfous, Léonard Berthet Rivière, Nastasja Caneve, Michel Charpentier, Coraline Clément, Lucie Debay, Ferdinand Despy, Cédric Eeckhout, Jimony Ekila, Sacha Fritschke, Valentine Gérard, Valérie Gimenez, Salvatore Giunta, Amandine Laval, Ilyas Mettioui, Joseph Olivennes, Chloé Petit, Laure Valentinelli

Texte - Dead Centre avec Emilie Pine
Mise en scène - Ben Kidd
Dramaturgie - Bush Moukarzel
Traduction et dramaturgie - Simon Vandenbulke

Scénographie - Aedín Cosgrove
Nouvelle création costumes - Marie Lovenberg
Création originale musique - Jenny O’Malley
Nouvelle création lumières - Olivier Arnoldy et Virna Eliseo
Coordinateur-ice d’intimité - Paloma Garcia Martens et Sara Kamidian
Collaboratrice artistique - Caroline Gonce

Création originale lumière - Stephen Dodd
Création originale costumes - Mae Leahy

Construction décors - Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège
Régie générale - Baptiste Wattier
Régie plateau - Gilles Maréchal
Régie lumières - Virna Eliseo
Régie son et vidéo - Kevin Jaspar
Production - Dead Centre, Théâtre de Liège, DC&J Création
Coproduction - Théâtre National de Nice