“A Gwen Harwood Cycle” (2025), for narrator (Helen Morse), saxophone and piano (Duo Eclettico: Justin Kenealy and Coady Green), music by Linda Kouvaras.
Written as a one-woman stage vehicle for leading Australian actor Helen Morse and Duo Eclettico, 'A Gwen Harwood Cycle' explores the life and work of this powerfully honest artist, arguably one of Australia’s finest poets. The piece explores the inequalities implicit in gender stereotyping of the time, some of which continue today, and highlights the inventive ways that Harwood and other women artists attempted to transcend or subvert the limitations of patriarchy. This new work was commissioned and produced with the generous support of City of Melbourne, and Creative Victoria.
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