Captain Moonlite (play)

Captain Moonlight
Directed byEdward 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.