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Captain Moonlite (play)

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1906 Australian play

Captain Moonlight
Directed byEdward Irham Cole
CharactersCaptain Moonlite
Edna Scott
Date premieredMarch 9, 1906 (1906-03-09)
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.

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

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

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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