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HILARY BEATON (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Playmarket Inc |
Award-winning writer Hilary Beaton has written for stage and screen and is a published playwright. She has worked as freelance journalist, editor, manuscript appraiser and script assessor, here and overseas. She was the Director of the Queensland Writers Centre (1997-2004), where she published the monthly magazine Writing Queensland and books on writing including Word for Word-an inspirational handbook for writers and teachers of writing, Hot Iron Corrugated Sky-100 years of Queensland writing and was instrumental in purchasing the copyright and publishing the Australian Writers' Marketplace. In 2001, she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her services to the writing community.
Plays by Hilary Beaton
Jenny and the Tennis Nut | ||
| 1st Produced: | KITE Theatre, Brisbane | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59498 | |||
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Genre: | Young People's Theatre Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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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 People's 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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No Strings Attached | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | Darwin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49791 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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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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On the Line | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Contact Youth Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59502 | |||
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Genre: | Young People's Theatre Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 10 | ||
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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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Outside In | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Corporate, Auckland | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | University of Victoria Press, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59499 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
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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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Sitting On A Fortune | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116053 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The lives of three prostitutes | |||||
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Trading Hours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Street Arts Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59501 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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Worlds Apart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Queensland Theatre Company Brolgas | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59500 | |||
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Genre: | Young People's Theatre Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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