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Purcell, Leah,

The drover's wife / Leah Purcell. - Strawberry Hills, NSW : Currency Press Pty Ltd, 2016. - 56 pages ; 20 cm.

Theatre program at the end of the playtext.

"Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent -- it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australia's high country, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in... A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's infancy into our complicated present."--

Winner 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Drama.

ISBN: 1925005712 9781925005714

Source: 00121860

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aboriginal Australians.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Women pioneers.
Aboriginal Australians--Drama.
Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Drama.
Women pioneers--Australia--Drama.
Pioneers and pioneer life--Australia--Drama.
Australian drama--21st century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia.
Australia--History--Drama.

Subjects--Index Terms: Australian

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Drama.
Drama.

LC Class. No.: PR9619.4.P87 / D76 2016

Dewey Class. No.: A822.4 823.92