In 1922 the writer Katherine Mansfield went to the guru Gurdjieff in Fontainebleau hoping that he might ‘cure her soul’. In present day Sydney, a young man awakes in hospital to find a world dominated by women. As each struggles to discover their true identity, their separate stories intriguingly interweave.

Alma De Groen’s The Rivers of China is a daring re-examination of the female artist which challenges the threshold of modern sexual politics and theatrical form.