Surreal Sex is a stage play assembled from the actual recorded discussions the Surrealists held in Paris about sexuality. Led by André Breton and attended by Aragon, Man Ray, Eluard, Dali, and others, these sessions interrogated desire, love, and the body with the same rigor they applied to dreams and the unconscious — but a female voice was largely absent.

The play corrects that absence by introducing an unnamed presence who inhabits every session from first to last. Her constant presence unsettles the men: not by correction or triumph, but by haunting and destabilizing their certainties. As the sessions progress she shifts from shadow to silhouette to figure to flesh, until in the final meeting she is simply, undeniably, in the room.

Status: In development. Principal text complete; writing in progress.