The Man from Outback | |
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![]() Poster from 1909 production in Tasmania
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Written by |
Bert Bailey Edmund Duggan |
Date premiered | 1909 |
Original language | English |
Genre | Melodrama |
The Man from Outback is a 1909 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan written under the name of 'Albert Edmunds'.
Panimbla Station in the Australian outback is owned by Stephen Maitland, who is unaware that his manager is in league with a gang of cattle duffers. He is helped by his fesity daughter Mona and a mysterious stranger, Dave Goulburn.
The play was clearly inspired by an earlier success of Bailey and Duggan, The Squatter's Daughter, or, The Land of the Wattle (1907). It was a success on the stage, with the part of Dave Goulburn played by Roy Redgrave. The original production was produced by William Anderson.