AustLit

'The least cryptic thing uttered by Mao Zedong -”Women hold up half the sky”- was inspiration to Peter Green for this 50 minute performance in text, music and lyrics.

'The factors which enliven relationships between creative individuals and influence their professional output is complex; saturated with competing desires, dynamic tensions and impassioned acts. Throughout history, womens’ contributions have too often been sidelined; obscured by their partners’ achievements. This is the lot inhabited by couples such as Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx, Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette and 3 husbands, and Ella Viola Strom and Percy Grainger. Their stories are explored in ‘Our Half of the Sky’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.