Tags: Play.
The Secret River is a play by Andrew Bovell based upon the novel of the same name by Kate Grenville. Narrated by Dhirrumbin (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 Dahrug people are not willing to give up their land.