A young actress and writer hailing from Ballyduff Upper in Waterford is embarking upon a new project inspired by the ‘countless stories’ of women who are victims of sexual assault and violence that is perpetrated by men.
Martha Dunlea, whose love of the arts is rooted in the Ballyduff Drama Group where she began her career as an actress, has written a short film called ‘U home?x’. The film, says Martha, was borne from an increasing awareness of the types of conversations women have versus their male counterparts.
The title itself is a reference to a common occurrence for women – to check that their friends, sisters, mothers and others – got home safely, and the fact that a man will rarely need to be checked on the same way, or even be aware that this messaging happens every night and every weekend, by every group of girls who go out at night.
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