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Hilary Beaton

HILARY BEATON  (1955 - )

 Nationality:    Australian
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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.

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below is a list of Hilary Beaton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Jenny And The Tennis Nut         No Strings Attached         On The Line         Outside In         Sitting On A Fortune         Trading Hours         Worlds Apart

Jenny And The Tennis Nut

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.

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

1st Produced:
KITE Theatre, Brisbane    1998

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Genre:
Young People's Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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No Strings Attached

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.

Notes:
Matilda Award Commendation 1995. Nominated for AWGIE Award 1994

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Darwin Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playlab Press, 1994   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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On The Line

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.

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

1st Produced:
Brisbane    1993

Organisations:
Contact Youth Theatre

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Genre:
Young People's Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Outside In

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.

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.

1st Produced:
Theatre Corporate, auckland    1984

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1st Published:
University of Victoria Press, 1984   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Sitting On A Fortune

Synopsis:
The lives of three prostitutes

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1st Produced:
-    1979

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Trading Hours

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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1st Produced:
Brisbane    1990

Organisations:
Street Arts Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Worlds Apart

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.

Notes:
Requires two Aboriginal Actors

1st Produced:
Brisbane    1993

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre Company Brolgas

1st Published:
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Genre:
Young People's Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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