Acclaimed performer and director Leah Purcell ... Playwright's Award. Purcell said she would change the central subject of Henry Lawson's 1892 story The Drover's Wife to a part-Aboriginal woman ...

“My mother came from a generation of Aboriginal women that weren’t given a voice”: Leah Purcell in ... there’s nothing holding you here’.” Purcell secretly organised to leave ...

LEAH PURCELL: Aboriginal people have survived since time began. You know, we were here, we lived through two ice ages. And we're going to survive again. But we just got to empower ourselves ...

Leah Purcell in rehearsals for Brothers Wreck at Belvoir, which she directs.Credit: Brett Boardman “Leah has reimagined the wife as an Aboriginal woman estranged from her culture,” says Anthea ...

No one is more devoted to Australian author Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” than Leah Purcell ... than a sudden appearance of an escaped Aboriginal convict (and possible mass murderer ...

opens Australian director Leah Purcell’s Who We Are: Brave New Clan (2014), which was broadcast on Foxtel’s Bio Channel last night. The one-off documentary – which deserves another run ...

Memento International (“Call Me By Your Name”) has closed a raft of sales on Leah Purcell’s Australian ... One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada (Rob Collins ...