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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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Prologue and four acts.
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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
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Cooee and the Echo
( dir. Alfred Rolfe
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Australia
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Australian Photo-play Company
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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
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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
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E. W. O'Sullivan's 'Coo-ee, or, Wild Days in the Bush' : People's Theatre or Political Circus?
1997
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criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 30 1997; (p. 87-103) -
Forebears of "The Doll"
1957
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 1 1957; (p. 29-33) The Queensland Centenary Anthology 1959; (p. 262-267)
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Forebears of "The Doll"
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?
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 30 1997; (p. 87-103)
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