''Box the Pony'' is a 1997

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co-written by

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actress Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin. It is a semi-autobiographical one-woman show, set in an Aboriginal community in

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. It has played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the

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, the 1999

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and in 2000 at the Barbican in London.

Awards

* 2000 –

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Drama Script (Stage) Award, accepted by Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin

Notes

References

Literary Awards - Past winners
Queensland Government (retrieved 11-August-2007) 1997 plays 1990s Australian plays Indigenous Australian theatre Plays set in Queensland Stage plays about Aboriginal Australians {{1990s-play-stub