Internationally known Sydney electropop musician, singer , songwriter , music-mixer and producer , Paul McDermott , who performs under the name Paul Mac , is considering making a theatrical production of the extraordinary life of bushranger " Captain Moonlite" , Andrew George Scott , below , as either a contemporary opera or a narrative musical.
Magnetic Island muso , filmmaker and history buff , Gary Hunn has been discussing with McDermott details of the Irish born bushranger's life and is planning a trip to Sydney to carry out further research in the Mitchell Library.
As pointed out earlier in this blog , Hunn has been following in the footsteps of bushrangers with his film crew to show Australia how these individuals and the conditions of early settlement here and the oppressive regimes overseas shaped our nation .
He is currently studying the fascinating death cell letters of Captain Moonlite who was hanged in Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney, in 1880. A document being scrutinised line by line by Gary was written when Scott , a former preacher who had fought in the Maori Wars , was "within thirteen hours of death and fifty feet of the gallows. "
UPCOMING : A detailed account of the bushranger's incredible life, including a claim that Ned Kelly threatened to shoot him and a married woman who did not want known her association with Scott the night of a bizarre Victorian bank robbery for which he strongly asserted right up to his death he had been framed.
