TY  - BOOK
AU  - Purcell,Leah
AU  - Lawson,Henry
TI  - The drover's wife
T2  - Currency plays
SN  - 9781760620974
U1  - 822.4 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Strawberry Hills, NSW
PB  - Currency Press
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Drama
KW  - Australian drama
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - Australia
KW  - Pioneers and pioneer life
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - History
KW  - Australian
KW  - Historical drama
N1  - First published in 2016; "This revised edition first printed 2017"--Title page verso
N2  - 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
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