It was made into a silent film The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate in 1915, now considered lost.
For fuller details, see Plot of film Its first public performance was at the Melbourne Opera House on Saturday, 31 March 1883.
The company was engaged by the directors, Darrell and Holloway, and included[2] Most of these were also in the London cast of Sunny South.
[6] Other players mentioned are Kate Arden, Maria Hill, K. Herbert, and Carrie Bilton.
[7] Darrell took his play to London, and according to reports was doing good business when he was injured by an actor, not named, who bungled the scene where the hero was freed from his bonds with a bowie knife.
The resulting wound required no less than four operations,[8] and compelled his return to Adelaide by the Orient Line steamer Garonne on 4 April 1885.
[9] "At the Theatre Royal George Darrell's " Sunny South" is cramming the popular seats.
Any variations from Houndsditch are copper-plated Yankeeisms such as may be acquired by a short sojourn among the lower classes of New York.
"[10]The play was revived in 1980 by the Sydney Theatre Company in a production directed by Richard Wherrett with music by Terence Clarke.