The Drovers

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Event The Drovers
Venue Willard Hall, Adelaide, SA
Umbrella Event South Australian Catholic Schools Drama Festival
First Date 26 June 1972
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description Life in the bush is hot, hard and not for the faint-hearted. Under the extreme sun of Northern frontier country a pack of itinerant drovers thrive in the land they call home. A freak stampede brings 'Briglow' Bill and his mates face to face with mortality and their masculinity and mateship are tested. All the while, Pidgeon, a young Aboriginal boy, watches the white fellows. He sees something the drovers cannot speak of and, for Briglow, this silence is as stifling yet as familiar and as comforting as the heat that surrounds them all.

The Drovers is a bush drama that is rich with tension,
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects Australians
Masculinity
Relationships
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Louis Esson Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Australian Drama Project (UQ) DROVERSLE
Programme South Australia Performing Arts Collection
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 117580