Britfilm: ←Created page with ''''''Hands Up''''' is a 1893 Australian play by George Leitch.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13905543 |title=MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=17,224 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 June 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{Cite book|page=28|title= Towards An Australian Drama|first=Leslie |last=Rees |year=1953}}</ref> The pla...'
'''''Hands Up''''' is a 1893 Australian play by [[George Leitch]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13905543 |title=MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=17,224 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 June 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{Cite book|page=28|title= Towards An Australian Drama|first=Leslie |last=Rees |year=1953}}</ref> The play was specifically devised to be a vehicle for Mrs Keightley, the wife of a gold commissioner at Bathurst, who was robbed by [[Ben Hall (bushranger)|Ben Hall the bushranger]]. Keightley played herself<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173642772 |title=Theatre Royal. |newspaper=[[Tasmanian News]] |volume= , |issue=3804 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173642772 |title=Theatre Royal. |newspaper=[[Tasmanian News]] |volume= , |issue=3804 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> ''The Mercury'' said it was "especially composed and arranged for her, containing many incidents not merely probably but absolutely true."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13266311 |title="AN AUSTRALIAN HEROINE." |newspaper=[[The Mercury]] |volume=LXI, |issue=7,219 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=15 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
Reviewing the production, ''The Mercury'' called it "this splendid portrayal of life in the old bushranging days."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13289003 |title=THE MERCURY. |newspaper=[[The Mercury]] |volume=LXI, |issue=7,222 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=19 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
It is not to be confused with the play ''[[Hands Up (play)|Hands Up]]'' about [[Ned Kelly]].
==References==
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[[Category:1893 plays]]
[[Category:1890s Australian plays]]
[[Category
lays about bushrangers]]
Okumaya devam et...
'''''Hands Up''''' is a 1893 Australian play by [[George Leitch]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13905543 |title=MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=17,224 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 June 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{Cite book|page=28|title= Towards An Australian Drama|first=Leslie |last=Rees |year=1953}}</ref> The play was specifically devised to be a vehicle for Mrs Keightley, the wife of a gold commissioner at Bathurst, who was robbed by [[Ben Hall (bushranger)|Ben Hall the bushranger]]. Keightley played herself<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173642772 |title=Theatre Royal. |newspaper=[[Tasmanian News]] |volume= , |issue=3804 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173642772 |title=Theatre Royal. |newspaper=[[Tasmanian News]] |volume= , |issue=3804 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> ''The Mercury'' said it was "especially composed and arranged for her, containing many incidents not merely probably but absolutely true."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13266311 |title="AN AUSTRALIAN HEROINE." |newspaper=[[The Mercury]] |volume=LXI, |issue=7,219 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=15 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
Reviewing the production, ''The Mercury'' called it "this splendid portrayal of life in the old bushranging days."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13289003 |title=THE MERCURY. |newspaper=[[The Mercury]] |volume=LXI, |issue=7,222 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=19 April 1893 |accessdate=9 May 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
It is not to be confused with the play ''[[Hands Up (play)|Hands Up]]'' about [[Ned Kelly]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:1893 plays]]
[[Category:1890s Australian plays]]
[[Category
lays about bushrangers]]Okumaya devam et...