Aleisha Brown is a young writer from Perth, Western Australia. She developed her literary skills through a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing + Professional Writing and Publishing from Curtin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one is more devoted to Australian author Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” than Leah Purcell. First, she adapted Lawson’s ...

The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021) Film Review from the 28th Annual South By Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by and starring Leah Purcell, and also featuring Rob Collins, ...

Inspired by a short story from 1892, the outback drama will have its world premiere in the Narrative Spotlight section. By Trilby Beresford Associate Editor The film, one of three Australian projects ...

Queensland Performing Arts Centre will present The Drover's Wife – The Opera would have its world premiere in QPAC's new Glasshouse Theatre from 13 to 22 May 2026. Co-commissioned by QPAC and Opera ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Memento Films Intl. (“Call Me By Your Name”) has acquired the Aussie revenge tale “The Drover’s Wife,” the film adaptation of Leah Purcell’s successful Australian stage play. Purcell is on board to ...

Underscoring of the obvious in a handful of scenes does little to mute the cumulative impact of Purcell’s ambitious debut feature. No one is more devoted to Australian author Henry Lawson’s “The ...

Leah Purcell's Australian Western reimagines a classic of colonial literature from an Indigenous feminist perspective, depicting the struggles of an 1890s woman suspended between two cultures. By ...