Duke of Edinburgh Assassinated or The Vindication of Henry Parkes is a 1971 Australian play written by Bob Ellis and Dick Hall.
Instead Hall proposed they collaborate on a musical about the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868.
Ellis felt the events of the assassination "was the beginning of the great Australian inferiority complex.
"[3] It premiered at the Nimrod Theatre in 1971 directed by Aarne Neame.
[5] The reviewer from The Bulletin said: Slabs o factual research and transcription covering trials, commissions andinterviews (fascinating in content, no doubt, but deadly dull as theatre) are interspersed with stretches of music-hall song-and dance routines in a desperately contrived effort to sugar the pill.