(Hardback, Academy ed.)

From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of plays were written and staged in the Australian colonies. The first known of these, Henry Melville's The Bushrangers , was performed by a mixed amateur and professional cast at Hobart's Argyle Assembly Rooms on 29 May 1834.

(Paperback, Academy ed.)

Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays, each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions.