Canowindra; or, The Darky Highwayman and the Settlers' Homes on the Abercrombie

Canowindra; or, The Darky Highwayman and the Settlers’ Homes on the Abercrombie, a tale of New South Wales in 1863 is a 1863 Australian stage play by Charles Edwards about bushrangers. The play was one of the earliest colonial stage plays about bushrangers. It debuted at the Victoria Theatre in Sydney.

It starred actor Charles Dillon and his wife in the lead roles. The play's first performance was a benefit for "C. Burford".

The plot involved various hold ups. According to Empire "the piece contains nothing to influence the minds of the rising generation to bushranging."

Premise
"The principal scenes are laid in the occurrence of the late escort robbery. The incidents are the capture of Davis by Lyons, effected after both parties had discharged their six-barrel revolvers at each other; the bush shanty, where champagne is poured in a tin bucket, and sweetened with ration sugar; the attack on Canowindra; the bushrangers escape, and death of the chief of the gang."