Captain Moonlite (play)

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Captain Moonlight
Directed by Edward Irham Cole
CharactersCaptain Moonlite
Edna Scott
Date premieredMarch 9, 1906 (1906-03-09) [1]
Place premieredHaymarket Hippodrome, Sydney
Original languageEnglish
Subjectbushrangers

Captain Moonlite, the Wantabadgery Bushranger is a 1906 Australian play about the bushranger Captain Moonlite that was first produced by Edward Irham Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company. [2]

The play debuted in 1906 and according to contemporary reports "has been drawing large houses." [3]

It was one of the leading plays in Cole's repertoire. [4] The play was toured throughout the country. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "THE HAYMARKET HIPPODROME". Sydney Sportsman . Vol. VI, no. 294. New South Wales, Australia. 7 March 1906. p. 2. Retrieved 5 April 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Advertising". Referee . No. 1009. New South Wales, Australia. 7 March 1906. p. 12. Retrieved 5 April 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "The Strutter's Page". The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People . Vol. 9, no. 26. New South Wales, Australia. 17 March 1906. p. 3. Retrieved 5 April 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Time Marches On from Redskins to Bare Skins". Smith's Weekly . Vol. XXI, no. 27. New South Wales, Australia. 2 September 1939. p. 14. Retrieved 5 April 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "BOHEMIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY". The Ballarat Star . Vol. 55, no. 16719. Victoria, Australia. 28 December 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 5 April 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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