Written byAndrew Bovell First performance8 January 2013 GenreDrama Adapted fromThe Secret River
Date premiered8 January 2013 PlaywrightAndrew Bovell Original languageEnglish language Place premieredRoslyn Packer Theatre
SubjectThe Secret River by Kate Grenville SimilarAndrew Bovell plays, Dramas
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The Secret River is a play by Andrew Bovell, based upon the novel of the same name by Kate Grenville. Narrated by Dhirrumbin (originally played by Ursula Yovich), the drama is about a man who is exiled from London in the eighteenth century, and is sent with his family to a penal colony in the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, where he hopes to make a new start, but its inhabitants, the indigenous Dharug people, are not willing to give up their land.
Produced by the Sydney Theatre Company, the play was first performed on 8 January 2013 at the Sydney Theatre. A 2016 remount toured Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
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Original cast
Nathaniel Dean - William Thornhill
Anita Hegh - Sal Thornhill
Jeremy Sims - Smasher Sullivan
Colin Moody - Thomas Blackwood
Ursula Yovich - Dhirrumbin/Dulla Djin
Miranda Tapsell - Gillyagan/Muruli
Bruce Spence - Loveday
Bailey Doomadgee and Kamil Ellis - Garraway
Lachlan Elliott and Callum McManis - Willie Thornhill
Rory Potter and Tom Usher - Dick Thornhill
Roy Gordon - Yalamundi
Daniel Henshall - Dan Oldfield
Ethel-Anne Gundy – Buryia
Trevor Jamieson - Ngalamalum
Rhimi Johnson Page - Wangarra/Branyimala
Judith McGrath - Mrs Herring
James Slee - Narabi
Matthew Sunderland - Sagitty Birtles/ Captain Suckling/Turnkey