Conversations After Sex
By Mark O’Halloran
Sharp, poignant, and unflinchingly honest, Mark O’Halloran’s acclaimed drama won Best New Play at the Irish Times Awards in 2022 and now makes its London debut.
Unexpected encounters. Anonymous strangers in hotel rooms. Unguarded intimacy. When a woman in possession of her own sexuality meets a carousel of different men, she finds herself uncovering more than she expected. Grief. Loneliness. Promiscuity. Connection. It’s all here, in this startling play from award-winning writer Mark O’Halloran.
Directed by Jess Edwards (Elephant, Bush Theatre 2023; War & Culture, New Diorama Theatre 2023), this production presents a funny, sexy and painful story about the magic and loneliness of sex with strangers.
Conversations After Sex was first performed at the Project Arts Centre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2021.
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Evenings
19.00
Thu & Sat15:15
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Duration
Approx 1 hour and 25 mins
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
16+
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Content warnings
This production contains full frontal nudity.
Content Warnings
This production contains full frontal nudity.
Also contains references to suicide, sexual assault, grief, and depression.
Gallery
In the press
"Extraordinary"
Irish Times
"A triumph of a play"
London Box Office
"A masterclass in subtlety and emotional depth"
Everything Theatre
"Impeccably acted and sensitively staged"
The Reviews Hub
"Expertly directed by Jess Edwards"
The Theatre Gal
Cast & Creatives
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Olivia Lindsay
She
Olivia Lindsay
She
Olivia is an actor, producer, and artistic director of Ye You Productions, she is dedicated to presenting innovative and unique narratives that resonate with audiences.
Olivia’s body of work includes notable projects such as Picture This (Marylebone Theatre); No’s Knife (Old Vic Theatre); The Last of the Hausmann’s (National Theatre); A Skull in Connemara (Nottingham Playhouse); Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre) and The D Word (Vaults Festival). Her stage credits incude: The Least We Could Do (Hope Theatre); Picture This (Marylebone Theatre); Judy (Cockpit Theatre); Pizza Man (Barons Court Theatre); Yerma (Stockwell Playhouse); Eigengrau (Southwark Playhouse) and Women of Twilight (Actors Temple in New York City). Film credits include: A Night In (Boxfly Media); Ariella (Garsin Productions) and The Dinner Party (Duthie Productions). Currently, Olivia is developing a feature f ilm with Mad Dogs Productions.
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Julian Moore-Cook
Male Roles
Julian Moore-Cook
Male Roles
Julian’s theatre credits include: The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Liverpool Everyman); Underdog: The Other Other Bronte (National Theatre and Northern Stage); Cowbois (RSC and Royal Court); The False Servant (Orange Tree Theatre); Translations (National Theatre); While the Sun Shines (The Orange Tree); The Lieutenant of Innishmore (Michael Grandage Company); Dublin Carol (The Sherman Theatre); Mother Courage and Her Children (The Southwark Playhouse); Three Sisters (Lyric Theatre Belfast); The Rolling Stone (The Orange Tree Theatre); The Beggars Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Our American Cousin (The Finborough); Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre) and ObamAmerica (Theatre 503). Film credits include: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Ballywalter. TV credits include: Blue Lights S2+3 (BBC); The Peripheral (Amazon); Derry Girls (Channel 4); Endeavour (ITV); Peaky Blinders (BBC); Holby City (BBC); Kate & Koji (Hat Trick Productions) & Benidorm (ITV).
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Jo Herbert
F
Jo Herbert
F
Jo’s theatre credits include: Churchill in Moscow (The Orange Tree Theatre); Dear Octopus and 3 Winters (National Theatre); The Mirror and the Light (RSC at The Gielgud Theatre); The Southbury Child (Bridge Theatre); The Country Wife; For Services Rendered; Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester); Wild Honey and Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre); East of Berlin (Southwark Playhouse); Eternal Love, Anne Boleyn and As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Candida (Theatre Royal Bath); Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic); The Game of Love and Chance and Blackbird (Salisbury Playhouse); Comedy of Errors and The Importance of Being Earnest (Regents Park) and The Faerie Queen for Glyndebourne international tour. Film credits include: Misbehaviour. TV credits include: Grace (ITV); Call the Midwife (BBC); Josh (BBC); Unforgotten (ITV); The Crown (Netflix); Casualty (BBC); Loaded (Channel 4); Homefires (ITV); Casualty 1909 (BBC); Holby City (BBC) and Lewis (ITV).
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Jess Edwards
Director
Jess Edwards
Director
Jess is an award-winning director and writer, represented by Curtis Brown. Recent directing includes: A Divine Comedy (HOME Manchester); Elephant (Bush Theatre); War & Culture (New Diorama); Funeral Flowers (Roundhouse); Fitter/Hotter (Soho Theatre); Passengers (Summerhall & Adeleide Fringe); Sparks (HighTide); NACKTSÄNGERIN (BKA Theater, Berlin); Torch (Underbelly) and Punts (Theatre503). As a writer, her first play was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize, the ATG Playwrights Prize and the Yale Drama Series Prize and is currently in pre-production. Her screenplay Clitorati won the Studio21 Drama Script Award and is now in development. She is also developing two new musicals and is currently on attachment with the National Theatre.
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Mark O'Halloran
Writer
Mark O'Halloran
Writer
Mark is a writer/ actor from the west of Ireland. On screen he has appeared in numerous films, most notably as one of the eponymous heroes in Adam & Paul (which he also wrote), and the lead role of MP in History’s Future directed by Fiona Tan. He also appeared in Shane Meadow’s Channel 4 drama, The Virtues, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the IFTA awards 2020. Recently he appeared in the feature film,The Miracle Club, alongside Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Laura Linney. He also appeared in the Oliver Hermanus directed TV drama Mary & George, playing Sir Francis Bacon alongside Julianne Moore. Mark’s most recent theatre appearance was in Portia Coughlan at The Almeida Theatre. Theatre writing credits include: Trade; contributing text to the award-winning Lippy and Beckett’s Room (The Gate Theatre). In 2021 he premiered two new plays, Conversations After Sex, at the Dublin Theatre Festival, (which won Best New Play at the Irish Theatre Awards 2022), and a stage adaptation of Bergman’s The Silence at the Stadsteater in Göteborg, Sweden. He also wrote the libretto for the Opera adaptation of Trade, composed by Emma O’Halloran, which premiered at New York’s PROTOTYPE festival and later toured to LA Opera before it toured Ireland in 2024. Screenwriting credits include: Garage and Adam & Paul; the television series Prosperity; Viva a Spanish language feature set in Havana Cuba and Rialto which premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. His television work includes Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends. His film work has been seen at Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Telluride and Sundance film festivals. His feature film, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, goes it production in early 2025.
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Bethany Gupwell
Lighting Designer
Bethany Gupwell
Lighting Designer
Bethany received The Association of Lighting Designers Francis Reid Award in 2018. Credits include: All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare’s Globe); Larmes De Couteat/ Full Moon in March (Royal Opera House); Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Dutch National Opera); Escaped Alone/ What if Only, Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange Theatre); Quiet Songs; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Lay Down Your Burdens (Barbican); La Voix Humaine (Opéra National du Rhin); Visit From an Unknown Woman; This Much I Know; To Have and To Hold (2023 Offie nomination); Little Scratch; Wolf Cub (Hampstead Theatre); The Earthworks (Young Vic); Robin Hood (Theatre Royal Bath); Here; The Woods (Southwark Playhouse); Lady Dealer (Bush Theatre); War & Culture; Little Scratch; Keep Watching (New Diorama); Ignition (Frantic Assembly); The Pirate, The Princess and the Platypus (Polka Theatre); A-Typical Rainbow (2022 Offie nomination) (Turbine); Rice; Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree); Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not To Come; Fitter; Wonder Winterland (Soho Theatre) and Talking Heads (Watford Palace).
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Georgia Wilmot
Set and Costume Designer
Georgia Wilmot
Set and Costume Designer
Georgia trained in Interior Design at Liverpool John Moores University before moving into Theatre Production and Costume Design. Georgia’s set and costume credits include: Cross The Line (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Takeaway (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool); Communion (Bush Theatre); The End (Bush Theatre); Before I Go (Brixton House); Red Pitch 2024 (Soho Place, costume); This Is A Love Story, 2024 (Birmingham Hippodrome); Proof, Three Sisters, Chaos and Animal Farm (St Marys University Summer Festival Production Design and costume); Red Pitch, 2023 (Bush Theatre – Design Associate and Costume Supervisor ); The Wrong Reindeer, 2023 (Oldham Theatre Workshop); The Time Has Come, 2023 (The Playground Theatre); Invisible, 2023 (59E59 Theatre); Elephant, Clutch, Invisible and The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English ( Bush Theatre); BACK UP! and The Route (Bush Theatre); Project 2036 (Bush Theatre); Covered (New Heritage Theatre at Paddington Arts Centre); I knew you (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) and Days Of Significance (Questors Theatre). Television, Advertising and Social Media credits: Writing and Illustration: The Adventures Of (Book 1, series of children’s books, Illustrator); My Trauma, My Healing (Instagram, Illustrator); Life, Lemons and Melons (Illustrator); The Tiger in the Trilby, (Author and Illustrator); Monroe (ITV -costume trainee) and Superdrug’s YouTube channel Christmas campaign 2017. In 2024 Georgia was thrilled to be nominated for a Black British Theatre Award in the Theatre Design (body of work) category.
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Xana
Sound Designer and Composer
Xana
Sound Designer and Composer
ana is a composer, spatial sound artist, music supervisor and a haptic specialist sound designer developing accessible audio systems for theatre and live art spaces. Xana is the music science and technology lead and project mentor supporting Black artists and inventors at audio research label Inventing Waves. Theatre credits: After Sunday (Belgrade Theatre); Alterations (National Theatre); Conversations After Sex (Park Theatre); Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn Theatre); Shifters and Barcelona (Duke of York); Dead Girls Rising (Silent Uproar, UK Tour); Superwoman Schema, Speed, The Real Ones, My Fathers Fable, Elephant, Sleepova, The P Word and Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre); The Architect (ATC/GDIF); Beautiful Thing (Stratford East); Imposter 22, Word:Play and Living Newspaper #4 (Royal Court); Rumble In the Jungle (Rematch:Live); Anna Karenina (Edinburgh Lyceum, Bristol Old Vic); Intimate Apparel, The Trials and Marys Seacole (Donmar Warehouse); Earthworks, Sundown Kiki: Reloaded, The Collaboration, Sundown Kiki, Changing Destiny, Fairview and Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); … cake (Theatre Peckham); Who Killed My Father (Tron); as british as a watermelon (Contact); Hyde and Seek (Guildhall); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); King Troll [The Fawn] and Everyday (Deafinitely) (New Diorama Theatre); Black Holes (The Place); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Main Character Energy, But Daddy I love her, Glamrou: From Quran to Queen, Curious and Half-Breed (Soho Theatre); Blood Knot and Guards At The Taj (Orange Tree Theatre); Samuel Takes A Break and SEX SEX MEN MEN (Yard Theatre); Limp Wrist & Iron Fist, Everything I own and Is Dat Yu Yeah (Brixton House). Black British Theatre Awards: Best Sound Design 2023 (Win), Best Sound Design 2024 (Win). Theatre Awards Offie: King Troll (The Fawn) (Win); Shifters (Win); Guards at The Taj (Win); Sleepova (Nom); The P Word (Nom) and Blood Knot (Finalist). Olivier Wins: Olivier Award for The P Word production award 2023, Olivier Award for Sleepova production award 2024
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James Christensen
Stage Manager and Technical Operator
James Christensen
Stage Manager and Technical Operator
James is a director, deviser, composer, and stage manager from Melbourne Australia. His work spans a range of styles including new writing, classical adaptation, experimental performance, musical, opera, and live-art – with a particular focus on formal innovation and collaborative interplay between varied artistic disciplines. He is currently the Resident Production Manager for the Advanced Theatre Practice programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Recent Stage Management credits include: Charles Dickens – Morning Chronicle (Jermyn St); The Double Act (Arcola Theatre); Women Who Blow on Knots (Arcola Theatre); After Sex (Arcola Theatre & Izzy Parriss Productions); Othello (Riverside Studios); Form(at) Festival (Camden People’s Theatre); Earthquakes in London and Nora: A Doll’s House (Rose Bruford College).
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Carrie Croft
Production Manager
Carrie Croft
Production Manager
Carrie is a Production Manager, Producer and General Manager, based in London working in both off-West End and West End theatres. She completed the MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Distinction in 2022. Recent Theatre Productions include: Stalled (Kings Head Theatre); 10 Nights (National Tour); Cinderella (Queens Theatre Hornchurch): Bombay Superstars (West end and Tour); Echo and Narcissus and Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov); Julie: The Musical (The Other Palace, Studio); Priscilla the Party (West End); Foam (Finborough Theatre); Othello (Riverside Studios); Birthright (Finborough Theatre); Apocalypse Bear Trilogy (Brockley Jack Theatre); Disruption (Park Theatre); Shape of Things (Park Theatre); Rocky Horror 50th Anniversary Gala (Peacock Theatre) Love and Information (Omnibus Theatre); Fucking Men (Waterloo East); Breeding (Kings Head Theatre); Under the Black Rock (Arcola Theatre) and Sus (Park Theatre).
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Izzy Parriss
Producer
Izzy Parriss
Producer
Izzy is a freelance theatre director and producer. She is the Artistic Director of Izzy Parriss Productions and Associate Director at Tightrope Theatre. Her freelance credits include work with Soho Theatre, Ambassador Theatre Group, Rich Mix, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Park Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Theatre503, Three Sisters Productions, Omnibus Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, VAULT Festival and Bomb Factory Theatre. Her directing credits include: After Sex (Arcola Theatre, 2024); Scratch (Old Red Lion Theatre, and Lion and Unicorn Theatre, 2023) and Dear Little Loz (Edinburgh Fringe, 2022). Her associate directing credits include: Hedda (dir. Matthew Dunster, Theatre Royal Bath, 2025); Cold Water (dir. Philippa Lawford, Park Theatre, 2024) and Ikaria (dir. Philippa Lawford, Park Theatre and National Tour, 2022/2023). Izzy has been assistant director to Lindsay Posner (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BA acting showcase, 2022) and Edward Hall (Ambassador Theatre Group, Duran Duran musical workshop, 2022).
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