HILARY BEATON   (1955 - )


Hilary Beaton
   Nationality:
Australian
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Plays by Hilary Beaton

HILARY BEATON
Jenny and the Tennis Nut
1st Produced:
KITE Theatre, Brisbane
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Young People's Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
This is a delightful re-telling of Janet Shulman's popular children's book, Jenny and the Tennis Nut. Using a magical combination of music, song, acrobatics and tennis, this is the delightful story about fathers and daughters, dreams and ambitions, and playing the game of life! Requires circus performer and/or actors who can do circus tricks and clowning. Winner of AWGIE award 1999, Theatre for Young Peoples category
Synopsis:
Jenny's Dad loves tennis and he is convinced his favourite only daughter, Jenny, will love it too. So he buys her a tennis racket in order to teach her to play. But tennis is not Jenny's game, and his good intentions are thwarted when she sets out to convince her father that she has other ambitions.
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HILARY BEATON
No Strings Attached
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
Darwin Theatre Company
1st Published:
Playlab Press
1994
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Matilda Award Commendation 1995. Nominated for AWGIE award 1994
Synopsis:
Four women skydivers reunite to jump one last time on the wedding day of a team member. But the air is full of danger! The slightest shift could mean disaster! Disaffected from the sport they once loved with passion, this is a play about sky diving, friendship and revenge.
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HILARY BEATON
On the Line
1st Produced:
Brisbane
1993
Company:
Contact Youth Theatre
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Young People's Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
10
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The first season of this play was performed in the front and back garden and under the house of an Old Queenslander (house on stilts) in Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
Synopsis:
A group of young women decide to rent an old Queenslander in order to keep their living costs down. Little do they know that the house is still inhabited by Mary, the original owner, who has lived there all her life. Enduring the good and the bad times, Mary acts as a mentor to the young women as they face the reality of leaving home for the first time.
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HILARY BEATON
Outside In
1st Produced:
Theatre Corporate, Auckland
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
University of Victoria Press
1984
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
7
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Subsequent productions in NZ, UK, USA & Aust (1983-95). In 2005, the director of Downstage Theatre, Murray Lynch, commissioned a re-write of Outside In to give it a contemporary slant.
Synopsis:
Written as a response to the women's movement of the 1970s, Outside In is an exploration of feminist principles and their impact - or lack of it - on those women who are most in need of liberation. "The first New Zealand drama that has the stink of urban squalor in its back-ground. Beaton highlights the victims of a society where myths of equality and a classless society are being exploded." Sebastian Black.
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HILARY BEATON
Trading Hours
1st Produced:
Brisbane
1990
Company:
Street Arts Theatre
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Trading Hours examines the lives of four co-workers who are forced to confront the meaning and impact of workplace harassment.
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HILARY BEATON
Worlds Apart
1st Produced:
Brisbane
1993
Company:
Queensland Theatre Company Brolgas
1st Published:
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-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Young People's Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Requires two aboriginal actors
Synopsis:
Performed in reverse chronology, Worlds Apart follows the paths taken by two aboriginal and two non-aboriginal friends from their last year of primary school to two years after leaving high school. It also weaves the universal story of the hero's journey, as the young people try to understand why their friendship has fallen apart.
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