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Hands Up (Leitch play)

Hands Up is an 1893 Australian play by George Leitch. The play was specifically devised to be a vehicle for Mrs Keightley, the wife of a gold commissioner at Bathurst, who was robbed by Ben Hall the bushranger. Keightley played herself The Mercury said it was "especially composed and arranged for her, containing many incidents not merely probably but absolutely true."

Reviewing the production, The Mercury called it "this splendid portrayal of life in the old bushranging days."

It is not to be confused with the play Hands Up about Ned Kelly.

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