The Drover's Wife

<p>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 Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in. A taut thriller of our pioneering past <strong><em>The Drover's Wife </em></strong>is full of fury power and has a black sting to the tail reaching from our nation's infancy into our complicated present.</p>