When does catharsis become self-harm? Where do we draw the line?

Best friends Katie and Anastasia have shared everything since childhood - from scraping their knees as children to getting their first tattoos as teenagers. Now, as adults, each woman has a relationship with pain the other doesn’t understand. Set in a neon-lit world of firing synapses and stinging flesh, this surrealist piece of physical theatre incorporates elements of performance art to experiment with real pain and explore the limits of bodily autonomy.

Maso Schism grapples with the complexity of the female relationship to pain by inviting our audience to bear witness to it.