Holy Day (Red Sea)
Author(s): Andrew Bovell
On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a travellers rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aborigines have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionarys wife to lie? What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers? A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape. (1 act, 4 male, 4 female).
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Andrew Bovell is an award-winning writer for theatre, film and television. His AWGIE award-winning play 'Speaking in Tongues' has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as Lantana.
General Fields
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- : Currency Press Pty Ltd
- : Currency Press
- : 0.115
- : 31 March 2004
- : 210mm X 130mm X 5mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 80
- : 822.92
- : Paperback
- : Andrew Bovell