The Barbarous Barber

The Barabrous Barber is a 1925 Australian radio play by J.H. Booth. It was the first Australian radio play ever written and it was performed on 3LO in Melbourne.

Booth was commissioned to write it by Stanley Brookes who directed. Booth played the title role.

it was called "a humorous sketch provided with musical relief."

Wireless Weekly called it an "unspeakable abomination of crudities... too evidently composed by an imbecile schoolboy for some obscure college’s break-up. A dreary collection of stale and musty jokes, interspersed with sounds indicative of personal violence and ending in an alleged song whose words and music must have tortured the ears even of the trained musicians who accompanied it."

Premise
A barber gets his assistant to go through the pockets of his customers, who he then drops through a trap door.