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To help actors feel safe during sex scenes, Salt Lake Acting Company tries new ‘intimacy directing’

As an audience watches, Don grasps Karla around her waist, carries her into a bathroom, sets her atop a sink and removes her pants and underwear.

In the past, actors might have been told to sort out the kissing and touching themselves as they prepared for this scene from “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City.”

That approach could leave actors feeling uncomfortable or even harassed or abused on the job. But instead of the makings of another #MeToo moment, this is a story about consent.