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
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