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Purcell, Leah, 1970-,

The drover's wife / Leah Purcell. - Revised edition. - xv, 60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. - Currency plays . - Currency plays .

First published in 2016. "This revised edition first printed 2017"--Title page verso.

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...

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.

ISBN: 9781760620974 1760620971

Standard No.: 40027440214

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aboriginal Australians--Drama.
Australian drama--21st century.
Women pioneers--Australia--Drama.
Pioneers and pioneer life--Australia--Drama.
Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Drama.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia--History--Drama.

Subjects--Index Terms: Australian. Australian

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Drama.
Historical drama.

Dewey Class. No.: 822.4