The Game

★★★★
The Guardian
“Director Grace Dyas and her collaborators are determined to show how complex the subject is, and to ask us to think. They succeed, in a work that is brave, horrific and urgent.”

I was Nominated at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2015 for Best Director

The Game explored the act of buying sex – the rules, the language and the power structures.
It’s was a play that was also a real-life game, with levels and consequences.
Five new men volunteered each night. Those men had never played ‘The Game’ before. They had no idea what they were about to do and they weren’t given a script. They did it to be part of an event – a symbolic act – that called us all to consider, to think and to review.
All audiences had to was watch
The Game gave audiences an insight into a world that sits uncomfortably beneath the surface of our day-to-day lives. How we legislate makes a statement about our values. The legal status of prostitution and sex work is a measure of our society. Laws around the world are changing. We’re all affected by those changes.

The Game was devised and presented amid the context of the scrutiny of the ‘Sexual Offences Act’ which became law in 2017.

The Game premiered at Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and went on to tour to Brisbane Festival, Australia in 2016, the Women of The World festival at the Southbank Centre in 2017 and on tour around the England and Ireland in 2017.

Devised by Gemma Collins, Grace Dyas and Lauren Larkin with Mia Döring, Rachel Moran, Mia de Faoite and other women who have exited prostitution and women currently involved in sex work
Directed & Designed by Grace Dyas
Performed by Gemma Collins, Lauren Larkin and five new men each night
Lighting Design by Eoin Winning
Costume Design by Emma Fraser with help from Sarah Foley
Music by Frank Sweeney
Volunteer Co-Ordinators Shaun Dunne, Shane Byrne (Irish Tour 2017)
Project Manager Joanna Crawley, Sandra Adams
Production Manager Sean Dennehy, Marcus Costello
Stage Manager Emma O’Grady, Aoife O’Sullivan (England&Ireland 2017)

The image at the top of this page was taken by Fiona Morgan