Nellie Lacey and the Bushranger is an Australian stage play by Charles Porter.
[1] The Bulletin said the play "(it would surely be better without its prologue and epilogue) has one nice moment of irony when the weakling settler, mistakenly believing that fifty guineas given by Midnight to his wife is a payment for her infidelity, “forgives” her for the sake of the money.
[4] It is arguably the best known play from Porter, who Leslie Rees said "has an unusually precise ear for sound, and some psychological understanding, though critics have objected that his plays are fragmentary."
Rees called the play "An engaging period trifle.
"[5] A man and his wife are visited by the bushranger Captain Midnight.