Under the Southern Cross (play)

It was written at a time when Australian plays were relatively rare.

[1][2][3][4] The original production premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in Sydney on 9 November 1885[5] and starred Dampier, and his daughters Lily and Rose.

[6] The plot involved twins and an Irish new chum.

[9][10] Dampier reused the elements of a twin brother and Murrumbidgee whaler in his later play Marvellous Melbourne.

One brother, together with a Murrumbidgee whaler, murders a man for his money.