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y separately published work icon Coo-ee; Or, Wild Days in the Bush, in Prologue and 4 Acts : A New and Original Australian Drama, Illustrating the Wild Life of the Bush 50 Years Ago single work   drama   - Prologue and four acts.
Issue Details: First known date: 1906... 1906 Coo-ee; Or, Wild Days in the Bush, in Prologue and 4 Acts : A New and Original Australian Drama, Illustrating the Wild Life of the Bush 50 Years Ago
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'Coo-ee was not simply a bushranger play set in the 1860s, but a hybridised cavalcade of stock characters, dialogue, situations, settings and catalyst objects drawn from the European roots of melodrama and remoulded for early federation Australia, interspersed with patriotic speeches.' Anna Bemrose, 'E. W. O'Sullivan's Coo-ee; or, Wild Days in the Bush: people's theatre or political circus?', Australasian Drama Studies 30 (April 1997): 87-103.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Cooee and the Echo ( dir. Alfred Rolfe ) Australia : Australian Photo-play Company , 1912 6187701 1912 single work film/TV crime adventure romance

A young miner is determined to avenge his brother's murder, while also pursuing the daughter of the mine manager.

Production Details

  • First produced by Edward Irham Cole and performed at the tent Hippodrome by his Bohemian Dramatic Company in the Haymarket, Sydney on 14 April 1906 to an audience of 2,800 people. It was staged in Melbourne at the end of March 1907.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1906
Notes:
Manuscript held in O'Sullivan Collection, Mitchell Library, Sydney
      1906 .
      Extent: 134 l.p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Bound with photocopies of programmes, posters, and income tax assessment receipt, 1906.
      • Written for Bohemian Dramatic Company.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: The Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts
      Local Id: H1313
      .
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Written in January 1906.

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H313
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Works about this Work

E. W. O'Sullivan's 'Coo-ee, or, Wild Days in the Bush' : People's Theatre or Political Circus? Anna Bemrose , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 30 1997; (p. 87-103)
Forebears of "The Doll" Eunice Hanger , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 1 1957; (p. 29-33) The Queensland Centenary Anthology 1959; (p. 262-267)
Forebears of "The Doll" Eunice Hanger , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 1 1957; (p. 29-33) The Queensland Centenary Anthology 1959; (p. 262-267)
E. W. O'Sullivan's 'Coo-ee, or, Wild Days in the Bush' : People's Theatre or Political Circus? Anna Bemrose , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 30 1997; (p. 87-103)
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