Playwright Andrew Bovell has adapted the Kate Grenville novel The Secret River ... - The Australian

IN his stage adaptation of Kate Grenville's The Secret River, Andrew Bovell doesn't muck around. The celebrated playwright and screenwriter takes audiences straight to a scrub-fringed bend in the Hawkesbury River near Sydney, to the site of a violent conflict between an indigenous clan and white settlers - a bloodstained emblem of the way this country was colonised.