The No Hopers

The No Hopers
The No Hopers
Original language	English
Written by	Peter Batey
Genre	comedy
Premiere
Date	June 1961
Place	Perth

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.

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.

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

↑ "Scottish accent". The Age. 1 December 1962. p. 8.
↑ "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.
↑ Nowroozi, Isaac; Burnside, Niki (15 June 2019). "Bald Archy Prize founder Peter Batey dies aged 85". ABC.
↑ "news of the day". The Age. 1 December 1962. p. 2.
↑ "The No-Hopers". AusStage. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
↑ "The No-Hopers". AusStage. Retrieved 2025-01-10.

[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.