The Drovers is a 1921 Australian play by Louis Esson.
According to Esson's obituary the play was his "finest piece... one scene, one simple incident; it was what he could do; be never did anything better; and no one else did, either.
Leslie Rees called The Drovers: A play that will stand reading and rereading... Each character is dry-pointed, hardly more than a line-sketch in so brief a compass—... but definite and clear.
No play of ours more powerfully shows the grimness of a fate that broods over men who pit themselves against our vast inland wilderness.
[5] "The Play tells of Briglow Hill, the injured drover, left to die on the track because the parched cattle must be driven on to a distant waterhole at all costs.