The drover's wife / Leah Purcell
- Bib ID:
- 7250612
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Purcell, Leah, 1970-, author
- Description:
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- Strawberry Hills, NSW : Currency Press Pty Ltd, 2016
- ©2016
- 56, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1925005712
- 9781925005714 (paperback)
- Series:
- Current theatre series.
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
- "Belvoir"
- Awards:
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- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Victorian Prize for Literature, winner, 2017.
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for Drama, winner, 2017.
- Subject:
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- Australian drama -- 21st century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Drama
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
- Performing arts
- Performing arts - Actors
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers - Drovers / Stockmen
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Men
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Performing arts - Theatre and drama
- Daily life
- Literature and stories - Plays
- Australia -- History -- Drama
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- based on Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. Drover's wife
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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