20 great events at Newcastle Writers Festival this weekend Sex, food, crime and much more to whet your appetite. Newcastle Herald · Apr 5, 2024
Blessed Union puts queer families centre stage, with hilarity and heartbreak This review contains spoilers. The Conversation · Feb 16, 2023
Blessed Union review – lesbian divorce comedy poses big questions (and gets big laughs) Charmingly clever and thrillingly sharp, Maeve Marsden’s debut play queers the contemporary domestic drama with heart-aching authenticity The Guardian - AU · Feb 16, 2023
The moment I knew: after my first sexual encounter with a man, I realised I only loved women For eight years, Maeve Marsden identified as bisexual. Then a one-night stand with Ben – or was it Steve? – cemented her identity as a lesbian. The Guardian - AU · Feb 11, 2023
Maeve Marsden's Blessed Union, opening at Belvoir for Sydney WorldPride, might be Australia's first lesbian divorce play Maeve Marsden grew up the child of lesbian mothers — who subsequently divorced; this experience, and the same-sex marriage postal survey of 2017, inform her comedy Blessed Union. ABC News · Feb 11, 2023
Sydney Festival: Boycott, funding controversy and COVID-19 create perfect storm but artists stayed the course Sydney Festival has been in the eye of a storm this summer, as a $20,000 sponsorship blew out into a boycott and culture clash of international proportions. Here’s how it felt for the artists. ABC News · Feb 4, 2022