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The Drover's Wife

Leah Purcell

3.96/5 (494 ratings)

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Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. 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, this play is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation’s infancy into our complicated present. (7 male, 1 female).

Format:

Pages:: 80 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:

Edition:: UK ed.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1925005712

ISBN13:: 9781925005714

kindle Asin:: B08FMVM5G4

The Drover's Wife

Leah Purcell

3.96/5 (494 ratings)

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Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. 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, this play is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation’s infancy into our complicated present. (7 male, 1 female).

Format:

Pages:: 80 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:

Edition:: UK ed.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1925005712

ISBN13:: 9781925005714

kindle Asin:: B08FMVM5G4

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