Presented by Blacklight Productions
She wanted it rough. She was wearing a thong. She didn’t fight back. She shouldn’t have been drinking so much. I paid her for it.
All of these have been presented as legitimate defences for rape, and sometimes murder. Angry? Confused? So is Rowena.
Rowena wants to understand consent. She wants to understand pornography and kink and sex work. She wants to understand how women’s bodies, her body, became the property of the media and a broken legal system.
The trouble is, nobody else wants to talk about it.
As a frustrated Rowena looks for answers herself, she soon discovers that there are some things you can’t unsee. Some things you can’t unlearn. Some actions you can’t take back.
Written in the wake of the 1976 film Snuff, Masterpieces travels to the darkest places of human desires to confront our attitudes to autonomy and consent. How do we navigate sexual freedoms in a way that protects women, without censoring them?
€1 FROM EVERY TICKET SOLD WILL BE DONATED TO THE DUBLIN RAPE CRISIS CENTRE.
WRITTEN BY : Sarah Daniels
DIRECTED BY : Clíodhna McAllister
LIGHTING DESIGN BY : Matt McGowan
SET & COSTUME DESIGN BY : Alessia Licata
SOUND DESIGN BY : Eoin Malin
COMPOSER : Karima Dillon-El Toukhy
STAGE MANAGER : Ellen Jones
PRODUCER : Colm Doran
CINEMATOGROPHER : Fiona Brennan
PROJECTIONIST : Chris Merton
CAST:
Síofra Brogan
Danii Byrne
Conrad Jones-Brangan
Gemma Long
Eilis O’Donnell
Eoin O’Sullivan
Maureen Rabbitt
Aidan White
Running time : 125 mins including an interval
Parental guidance advised.
Contains sexual references & descriptions of sexual violence.
Post-show discussions:
Friday 6th March (after 7:30pm performance)
Post-show talk with Dr. Caroline West (noted porn scholar), Dr. Sarah Cleary (noted horror scholar) and Ruth Coppinger.
Saturday 7th March (after 7:30pm performance)
Post-show talk with Michelle McCormick (Pure Filth Podcast presenter), Dr. Dara Downy (noted horror scholar) and Noeline Blackwell (Dublin Rape Crisis Centre)