The Bunyip also known by the longer title The Enchantment of Fairy Princess Wattle Blossom was written by Ella Palzier Campbell (AKA Ella Airlie).
The pantomime  was a highly successful musical  comedy that toured Australia for a decade within Fuller Brothers theatre circuit.
The show was produced by Sydney entrepreneur Nat Philips.
The premiere of the show ran for at least 97 performances  and was revived several times over the following decade.

Music was supplied by a number of Australian stage personalities including Vince Courtney, Herbert De Pinna and James Kendis.

The play relied heavily on comic stereotypes of the time, including a Chinese cook, bumbling Jewish clowns, fierce Aboriginal tribes-persons, and a drunken Australian lout - all contending with wattle blossom, the fairy princess in the original story.

A Melbourne National Gallery student P. Cohen was enlisted to paint the sets with Australian flowers.
namely wattle and waratah, on costumes also.


The story opens with a bushfire in which all the bush creatures are bought out into the open.
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.
The Lord High Gnome decrees that the Princess shall be turned into a bunyip, and this transformation takes place on the stage.
The fairy princess is then rescued by the principal boy from the race of bush gnomes.
The action of the play involves girls undressing behind an illuminated screen.
The Bunyip also known by the longer title The Enchantment of Fairy Princess Wattle Blossom was written by Ella Palzier Campbell (AKA Ella Airlie). The pantomime  was a highly successful musical  comedy that toured Australia for a decade within Fuller Brothers theatre circuit. The show was produced by Sydney entrepreneur Nat Philips. The premiere of the show ran for at least 97 performances  and was revived several times over the following decade.
Music was supplied by a number of Australian stage personalities including Vince Courtney, Herbert De Pinna and James Kendis.
The play relied heavily on comic stereotypes of the time, including a Chinese cook, bumbling Jewish clowns, fierce Aboriginal tribes-persons, and a drunken Australian lout - all contending with wattle blossom, the fairy princess in the original story.
A Melbourne National Gallery student P. Cohen was enlisted to paint the sets with Australian flowers. namely wattle and waratah, on costumes also.

The story opens with a bushfire in which all the bush creatures are bought out into the open. 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. The Lord High Gnome decrees that the Princess shall be turned into a bunyip, and this transformation takes place on the stage. The fairy princess is then rescued by the principal boy from the race of bush gnomes. The action of the play involves girls undressing behind an illuminated screen.
The Bunyip (musical)