The Drover's Wife review: Australian classic revitalised with a new muse
Belvoir Theatre, SydneyLeah Purcell's radical reimagining of Henry Lawson's short story is a tense, captivating, action-packed Australian western A selection of short stories by Henry Lawson was published in 1959 called Fifteen Stories. Australian author Colin Roderick wrote in the introduction:[Henry Lawson] never attempted to draw people he did not know … it was the world of the drover, the prospector, the miner,…