Captain Bloody Captain Bloody Captain Bloody is an Australian musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett. It concerns a young gynaecologist, Eric Blood, whose closet fantasy is to be Errol Flynn. He finds out about a club, Heroes Anonymous, where people can live out their fantasies without hurting anyone, run by a man who thinks he is Winston Churchill. "Captain Bloody" opened at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney on 1 May 1984 and ran to 23 June 1984, produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Dunsinane Enterprises. It then played a short season at the Canberra Theatre from 3–7 July
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