Music was supplied by a number of Australian stage personalities including Vince Courtney, Herbert De Pinna and James Kendis.
A Melbourne National Gallery student P. Cohen was enlisted to paint the sets with Australian flowers,[3] namely wattle and waratah, on costumes also.
Then it deals with the wanderings of princess Wattle Blossom, who falls into the hands of the Bush Gnomes, a proud race with a terrible way of doing things.
[12][13] The play relied heavily on comic stereotypes of the time, including a Chinese cook, bumbling Jewish clowns, fierce Aboriginal warriors, and a drunken Australian lout – all contending with Wattle Blossom, the fairy princess in the original story.
For example, in Adelaide the crowd was treated to a boomerang thrower safely tossing weapons above their heads[23] The play was embraced with patriotic fervour.