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Reimagining The Drover's Wife: Leah Purcell weaves Indigenous Australia into classic tale by Steve Dow

The Aboriginal actor and writer radically retools Henry Lawson's short story into a bush thriller with elements of her own family history In the rehearsal room at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri actor and writer Leah Purcell shows me a beautiful brown leather carved satchel-purse that her father made her. Growing up, she wasn't allowed to acknowledge him as her dad.Purcell is getting r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24PM on September 11, 2016

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