The Drover's Wife PLAYSCRIPT - VCE SET TEXT
Author(s): Leah Purcell
Plays, Theatre & Dance | Indigenous & First Nations Lit
Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawsons story of the Drovers Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent -- its our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leahs new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drovers Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australias high country, but now its a man. Hes bleeding, hes got secrets, and hes black. She knows theres a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but somethings holding the Drovers Wife back from turning this fella in... A taut thriller of our pioneering past, "The Drovers Wife" is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nations infancy into our complicated present. (7 male, 1 female)
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Currency Press
- : Currency Press
- : 0.11
- : 01 June 2017
- : 210mm X 137mm
- : 01 July 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Leah Purcell
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 819.2
- : 80
- : DD