When The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is released in cinemas across the country this week, it will be another feather in the cap for lead actor, writer, director and co-producer of the film, Leah Purcell, on a journey lasting almost five decades.
The Goa, Gunggari, Wakka Wakka Murri woman first reimagined the Henry Lawson short story as the Balnaves Fellowship recipient award-winning play that premiered in the Belvoir St theatre in 2016, and then as a bestselling novel published by Penguin Random House in late 2019.
