The Kinds of Sex You Might Have At College Play
The Kinds of Sex You Might Have At College is a play about WHAT you want, HOW you want it, IF you want it AND what happens when you don’t. The play ran in Autumn 2019 and again in Autumn 2022. Performed by an energetic ensemble of actors who play multiple roles, Active* Consent’s original play based on research data and devised by college students brought audiences through a range of situations and stories that they may encounter as they explore the joyful and occasionally darker sides of sexuality and consent during college life.
Tackling experiences from across all genders, all relationships and all sexualities (or as many of them as we could fit into one hour), The Kinds of Sex You Might Have At College combines humour, satire and drama to share diverse experiences. This original Active* Consent play equips audiences with a more proactive understanding of consent to apply to their future sexual encounters as well as out in the world as possible bystanders to sexual violence and/or harassment.
Active* Consent’s The Kinds of Sex You Might Have at College is a long-term collaboration involving academic staff from Drama and Theatre Studies and Psychology and starring and supported by students and alumni who work professionally in the creative industries. The play has been under development since 2014 and has involved more than 40 students and alumni in its writing and performance since its first in-progress showing as part of a third-year module in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway.
To read more about the play and to go deeper into all of the statistics we use in the play, access our play zines here:
View our play zine from 2022
View our play zine for Northern Ireland from 2022
The play toured in Autumn 2019 and 2022. If you would like more information, please contact activeconsent@universityofgalway.ie