The drover's wife / Leah Purcell.
Publication details: Strawberry Hills, NSW : Currency Press Pty Ltd, 2016.Description: 56 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 1925005712
- 9781925005714
- 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
- Australia
- Australia -- History -- Drama
- Australian
- A822.4 23
- 823.92 23
- PR9619.4.P87 D76 2016
- Winner 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Drama.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 822.4 PUR | Available | 065911 |
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.
