"The first time, it ruined me, but I thought... It's like a rite of passage.
Now, they've touched me.
Now, I am a woman."
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Based on Real Life Experiences and spoken directly to the audience through two intertwining monologues, a Man and Woman, honestly discuss their past in relation to broken consent, sexual assault, the effect of growing up with the past ever-present and how society treats them.
Who is a person when their life ripples with the constant, overbearing shadow that is assault and rape? When that shadow always threatens to grow with new unwanted memories or overwhelm the glimmer of continued existence after the happenstance? Was there ever a life without that past; are all thoughts tainted forevermore?
Women are taught to beware. Men to not be weak.
1 in 4 women, 1 in 20 men - Have been raped or sexually assaulted as an adult.
5 in 6 women, 4 in 5 men - Do not report it.
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Produced by Dramatic Chaos Productions. Written and Co-directed by Rebecca Holbourn. Co-directed by Miko Chrobat. Starring Tamsin Harding and Arthur Perdreau. Music by Franziska Beck.
“Such a crucial part of the UK theatre ecology… Developing artists and audiences”
The Guardian
