''The Piccadilly Bushman'' is a 1959 Australian play by

Ray Lawler Raymond Evenor Lawler (23 May 1921 – 24 July 2024) was an Australian playwright and dramatist, actor, theatre producer and director. Lawler's most notable play was his tenth, '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' (1953), which had its premie ...

.RAY LAWLER talks to Alrene Sykes Australasian Drama Studies; St Lucia, Qld. Vol. 3, Iss. 2, (Apr 1, 1985): 21. It concerns an expatriate Australian actor who returns to Australia from England to star in a film adaptation of a successful Australian novel. ''The Piccadilly Bushman'' was originally produced as a commercial tour of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide by J.C. Williamson's, premiering at Melbourne's

Comedy Theatre The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,

on 12 September 1959. Melbourne's

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revived the play at the CUB Malthouse in 1998.

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