Maeve Marsden's Blessed Union, opening at Belvoir for Sydney WorldPride, might be Australia's first lesbian divorce play

Playwright Maeve Marsden started to write Blessed Union as she tried to conceive her first child. (ABC Arts: Anna Kucera)

Blessed Union is probably Australia's first lesbian divorce play — let alone its first lesbian divorce comedy — but playwright Maeve Marsden would rather not think about that.

"I have tried at every turn to resist it," she says, giving two reasons.