The Drover's Wife

WINNER OF:Best Drama and the Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2017)Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting and Book of the Year, NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2017)Best New Australian Work, Sydney Theatre Awards (2016)Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award (2014)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...