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Author Purcell, Leah, 1970-, author

Title The Drover's wife / Leah Purcell
Edition Revised edition, 2020 reprint
Published Currency Press Pty Ltd
Strawberry Hills, NSW : Currency Press, 2020, [2017]
©2017

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  827.04 P9851 A6/D 2020  AVAILABLE
 PRINT DISABILITY  PDA 22037  UNAVAILABLE
Description xv, 60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Series Currency plays
Summary Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. 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, 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
Analysis Australian
English
Australian
Notes First published in 2016
"This revised edition first printed 2017"--Title page verso
Culturally sensitive
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner ; NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner, Book of the Year ; NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner
Subject Indigneous Collection
Australian drama -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Pioneers and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
Australian drama -- 21st century
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
Aboriginal Australians -- Drama
Women pioneers -- Australia -- Drama
Pioneers -- Australia -- Drama
Performing arts - Theatre and drama.
Settlement and contacts - Settlers.
Race relations - Racial discrimination - Men.
Occupations - Pastoral industry workers - Drovers / Stockmen.
Performing arts.
Literature and stories - Plays.
Daily life.
Performing arts - Actors.
Aboriginal Australians.
Australian drama.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Women pioneers.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- Drama
Subject Australia.
Genre/Form Historical drama.
Historical drama.
Drama.
History.
Théâtre.
Drama.
Author based on (work) Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. Drovers Wife
ISBN 9781760620974
1760620971