The Currency Lass
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| The Currency Lass | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Edward Geoghegan |
| Date premiered | 27 May 1844 |
| Place premiered | Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney |
| Original language | English |
The Currency Lass; Or, My Native Girl is an 1844 Australian play by Edward Geoghegan.[1] It was called "a musical piece in two acts".[2]
The play was revived in 1966 at the Jane Street Theatre.[3]
It was adapted in 1968 into an Australian radio play by Anthony Scott Veitch.[4]
Reviewing the original performance, The Australian reported, "The incidents are common- place enough, but when it is understood that the author originally intended the principal character for a real, bona fide Currency Lass, the versatality of whose dramatic talents would have done ample justice to the part... the general interest of the piece loses none of its contemplated attractions. The dialogue is truly Colonial — rather too much so for our taste — although the "Cabbage-tree hats" that crowded the pit and galleries on its first night of representation testified their approbation of its merits, in their estimation, by clamorous applause."[1]
