The Man from Outback is a 1910 Australian play by Bert Bailey

Bert Bailey

Albert Edward Bailey , better known as Bert Bailey, was a New Zealand-born writer and actor best known for playing Dad Rudd on stage and screen.-Biography:...

 and Edmund Duggan

Edmund Duggan (playwright)

Edmund Duggan was an Irish-Australian actor and playwright best known for writing a number of plays with Bert Bailey including The Squatter's Daughter and On Our Selection . His solo career was less successful than Bailey's. His sister Eugenie was known as "The Queen of Melodrama"...

 written under the name of 'Albert Edmunds'. It is based on the Banjo Patterson poem The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River is an 1890 Australian poem by Banjo Paterson."The Man from Snowy River" may also refer to the following derived works:Film:* The Man from Snow River, a silent black & white film from 1920....

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Synopsis

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.

Production

The play was clearly inspired by an earlier success of Bailey and Duggan, The Squatter's Daughter, or, The Land of the Wattle

The Squatter's Daughter (play)

The Squatter's Daughter or, The Land of the Wattle is a 1907 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan, writing under the combined pseudonym Albert Edmunds.-Synopsis:...

(1907). It was a success on the stage, with a part of Dave Goulburn played by Roy Redgrave

Roy Redgrave

Roy Redgrave was an English stage and silent film actor. Redgrave was the founder of the Redgrave acting family.-Early life:...

. The original production was produced by William Anderson

William Anderson (theatre)

- External links :* at Australian Dictionary of Biography*...

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External links

• The Man from Outback at AustLit