Alphabet Lane is an unsettling new drama that rejects the myth of the idyllic country life
- Written by Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Joe FilmsAs early as the poetry of AB “Banjo” Paterson, urban Australians have been drawn to the pastoral fantasy of the outback, in which, as Paterson famously puts it, “the drover’s life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know”.
The danger of this fantasy is what lies at the centre of James Litchfield’s Alp...





