The No Hopers

The No Hopers
Written by	Peter Batey
Date premiered	June 1961 (1961-06) [1]
Place premiered	Perth
Original language	English
Genre	comedy

The No Hopers is a 1961 Australian play by Peter Batey. It was given support from the Elizabethan Theatre Trust at a time when that was rare for Australian plays. The play toured around Australia. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Premise

A woman, Maggie, runs an outback pub with her no hoper husband. She has a romance with commercial traveller Joe.

Initial production

The play premiered at The Playhouse Theatre in Perth on 7 June 1961 and later toured regional Western Australia with Union Theatre Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) and was presented in Melbourne in 1962. ^{[5] [6]}

Cast

• Joan MacArthur as Maggie O'Shaughnassy
• Bert Vickers as Mike O'Shaughnassy
• John Lenton as Joe Cook
• Margaret Ford as Edna Allnut
• Elspeth Ballantyne as Alma Hyland
• Brian Hannan as Archie Allnut

References

1. "Scottish accent". The Age. 1 December 1962. p. 8.
2. "The No Hopers". The Australian Women's Weekly . Vol. 29, no. 14. Australia, Australia. 6 September 1961. p. 6. Retrieved 18 July 2023– via National Library of Australia.
3. Nowroozi, Isaac; Burnside, Niki (15 June 2019). "Bald Archy Prize founder Peter Batey dies aged 85". ABC.
4. "news of the day". The Age. 1 December 1962. p. 2.
5. "The No-Hopers". AusStage. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
6. "The No-Hopers". AusStage. Retrieved 2025-01-10.