Masterpieces
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.
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 1979 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: Andrej Pacher SET & COSTUME DESIGN BY: Alessia Licata SET & COSTUME ASSISTANT: Caoimhe Murphy 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 – Gavan Ó Connor Duffy – Connor Dudley-Fergus – Gemma Long – Eilis O’Donnell – Eoin O’Sullivan – Maureen Rabbitt
Running time : 125 mins including an interval
Parental guidance advised.
Contains sexual references & descriptions of sexual violence.