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."[4]

The Sydney Morning Herald, reviewing a 1962 Sydney production, criticised its "numbing badness."[5]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ "Men at Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s". Jonathan Bollen.
  3. ↑ "Any Man Might", The bulletin. (Vol. 82 No. 4262 (21 Oct 1961)), ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-696000138, retrieved 8 January 2024 – via Trove
  4. ↑ "Latest Australinplay has vigour". The Age. 12 October 1961. p. 5.
  5. ↑ "Local theme at pocket". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 May 1962. p. 7.


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