The Beast in View (play)
| The Beast in View | |
|---|---|
| Written by | John Hepworth |
| Date premiered | 1959 |
| Place premiered | Union Hall, Adelaide |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | drama |
| Setting | boarding house in Kings Cross, Sydney |
The Beast in View is a 1959 Australian stage play by John Hepworth.[1]
The play won a competition to select an Australian play for the first Adelaide Festival of Arts, but was rejected for production. The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild then staged it in a censored version.[2]
Reviewing a 1961 production, The Bulletin said "The play is in fact completely incoherent. I think the trouble is that Mr Hepworth was so busy trying to reproduce the surface of life, which' he does well, that he forgot about making an artistic whole."[3] The Age called it an "uneven play" but said it "had a certain vigor, an eye for character and a feeling for the spoken idiom."[4]
The Sydney Morning Herald, reviewing a 1962 Sydney production at the Pocket Playhouse, criticised the play's "numbing badness."[5]
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Kippax, H. G. (1964). Australian Drama since “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.” Meanjin Quarterly, 23(3), 229–242. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.971442310074885
- ^ "Men at Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s". Jonathan Bollen.
- ^ "Any Man Might", The Bulletin, 82 (4262), 21 Oct 1961, ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-696000138, retrieved 8 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Latest Australinplay has vigour". The Age. 12 October 1961. p. 5.
- ^ "Local theme at pocket". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 May 1962. p. 7.
- ^ The Beast in View at Fryster Library
External links
[edit]- The Beast in View at Ausstage
- The Beast in View at AustLit
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