In the wake of the same-sex marriage postal survey in 2017, theatre maker and writer Maeve Marsden wrote a play about a lesbian couple splitting up.
"I wasn't emotionally or politically invested in marriage but suddenly, everyone was super, super into it. I went to the announcement at Prince Alfred Park, and everyone was crying, and I was kind of dry-eyed.""I felt like my approach to work in the arts, which was to do often multiple roles on one production, wasn't serving me and wasn't serving the work I was making," she explains.
Ruth is a union organiser and Judith is a primary school teacher, and they live with their antagonistic, cheeky teenage son, Asher . "[But also] this isn't a play about the most marginalised even within the queer community; these women, they're white middle-class ladies — they'll be fucking fine."During the COVID lockdowns, Marsden watched as all her playwrights' lab retreats and events were cancelled .
"Someone said to me, 'You're not meant to enjoy it in the rehearsal room, writers don't enjoy this part.' And I was like, 'Well, I'm not a writer, I'm a theatre maker – it's just that this play needed me to be a writer.'"
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