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Hugh Hastings

HUGH HASTINGS

  (1917 - 2004)
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Eric Glass Ltd  

Hugh Hastings's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Albatross         Blood Orange         Boy, The         Green Carnation         Inner Circle         Pink Elephant         Quadrille, The         Red Dragon         Scapa!         Seagulls Over Sorrento         Shuffle         Tattoo Parlour, The         Touch Of The Sun, A
Albatross

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 29/7

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Blood Orange

Synopsis:
Growing up in the late 1920s in a small Australian town sixty miles from Sydney

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1st Produced:
Metropolitan Theatre, Sydney, NSW     01 Feb 1956

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Genre:
Drama

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Boy, The

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 29/7

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Green Carnation

Synopsis:
Oscar Wilde

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Genre:
Gay historical character

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Inner Circle

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1st Produced:
-     05 May 1905

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Pink Elephant

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1st Produced:
-     08 May 1905

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Quadrille, The

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Written as Hugh J Williamson (his real name)

1st Produced:
Savoy Theatre, Sydney, NSW     16 Apr 1935

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Genre:
One act

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Red Dragon

Synopsis:
Based on a true event. In the Chinese Civil War a British ship came under fire from the Chinese Communists

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1st Produced:
Phoenix, London     24 Apr 1950

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1st Published:
Fortune Press, 1952   

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Genre:
Historical play

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 50.58

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Scapa!

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Notes:
Music by Peter Knight; lyrics and book by Hugh Hastings. Based on the play "Seagulls Over Sorento" by Hugh Hastings. Billed as the "first ever all male musical"

1st Produced:
Adelphi Theatre, London     08 Mar 1962

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Genre:
Musical

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Seagulls Over Sorrento

Synopsis:
a small deserted island off Scapa Flow which has a wartime naval fortress that has now been taken over for top secret weapons experiments. Four able seamen arrive having volunteered for the duty. the sailors decide to nickname the island Sorrento. they find to their dismay that the Petty Officer in charge of them is P.O. Herbert, who has a bad reputation around the fleet. He is a strict and so has the men resenting him. Herbert takes a shine to the youngest able seaman - Turner - nicknamed "Sprogg" and orders him to his cabin for cleaning duty. Sprogg comes back later with a bar of chocolate. able Seaman Turner "Lofty" is very worried about Herbert's attentions to the younger man. another able Seaman arrives - Hudson. In the War he had been working on radar. He is excused some duties and works on the secret weapon. Herbert tries to get Sprogg to tell him what the men are saying behind his back but he refuses and so is given the task of removing rust from ladders. Lofty is appaled and confronts Herbert but before they resort to blows there is an explosion and Hudson is killed. another sailor is sent to the island who turns out to be the man who ran away with the wife of one of the other sailors. the trial of the weapon is due and a volunteer is called for. Lofty rigs is so that he is the one to go. Whilst he is on board a ship waiting for the trials to begin he tells the Sub-Lieutenant about Herbert. When the trial has finished the sailors are given leave and P O Herbert is sent to another island where the trials will continue.

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1st Produced:
Comedy Theatre, London     23 Oct 1949

Organisations:
Repertory Players

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1951   

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Genre:
Three act Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 50.140

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Shuffle

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written when he was eighteen

1st Produced:
Jame's Hall, Sydney, NSW     '09 Oct 1935

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Tattoo Parlour, The

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includes Last Call on the Milk Round And First Call on Furlough

1st Produced:
Bournemouth     1965

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Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Touch Of The Sun, A

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1st Produced:
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