Hands Up (Leitch play)
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Hands Up is an 1893 Australian play by George Leitch.[1][2] 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 the bushranger. Keightley played herself[3] The Mercury said it was "especially composed and arranged for her, containing many incidents not merely probably but absolutely true."[4]
Reviewing the production, The Mercury called it "this splendid portrayal of life in the old bushranging days."[5]
It is not to be confused with the play Hands Up about Ned Kelly.
