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, ...

Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson is an inspired and compelling re-imagining of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife, a short story originally published in The Bulletin in 1892 ...

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 ...

Even if the Australian poet had known about moving pictures, he can’t have conceived what his story about an outback woman isolated in a hut with her children would eventually spawn – a stage ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Like the revisionist Hollywood westerns of the 1970s, Leah Purcell's adapted, expanded version of Henry Lawson's short story offers a ...

The idea of Henry Lawson’s Drover’s Wife is an ‘ongoing small fire’ in our creative makeup, says Frank Moorhouse. He first read the story at school in 1950, and it has informed some of his own work.

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 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

As far as jobs go, they don’t get much more quintessentially Australian than being a drover. But it’s hard yakka. It’s not easy to move cattle - and that’s where drovers come in. As livestock owners ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Review: The Drover's Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson, written and directed by Leah Purcell, Sydney Film Festival Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife: the Legend of Molly ...

The idea of Henry Lawson’s Drover’s Wife is an ‘ongoing small fire’ in our creative makeup, says Frank Moorhouse. He first read the story at school in 1950, and it has informed some of his own work.