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Sculpture comes to life in unusual, interesting and passionate tale
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By Jill Sykes
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Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, April 29.
This play is based on real people and seems at the start to be a familiar story from across the arts world: a woman steps back from her career to allow that of her male partner to flourish, sometimes working with him creatively but getting no credit.
In 19th-century Paris, however, Camille Claudel was more ambitious than that. A student and then lover of Auguste Rodin, her life was particularly tragic. While her sculpture was admired, her family rejected her because of her affair, and her brother had her admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She was there for 30 years until she died.