In 1923 the writer Katherine Mansfield went to the guru Gurdjieff in Fontainebleau in the hope that he might ‘cure her soul’. In the 1980s in Sydney, a young man awakes in hospital to find a world dominated by women. This daring re-examination of the female artist challenges the threshold of sexual politics.
Winner 1988 NSW Premier’s Literary Award – Play Award
Alma De Groen was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to Australia at the age of twenty-four. De Groen is the author of many plays, of which The Rivers of China is probably the best known. It won the Premier’s Literary Award for Drama in both New South Wales and Victoria. In 1998 De Groen became the first playwright to receive the Patrick White Literary Award for her contribution to Australian theatre. Other plays published by Currency are The Girl Who Saw Everything, Going Home, The Joss Adams Show, Vocations, Wicked Sisters and The Woman in the Window.
Author Alma De Groen
Publisher Currency Press
Date of Publication 1987
ISBN 9780868191713 (print)
Category Drama
