Betty Quin

Betty Quin (died 1993) was an Australian playwright, script writer and series script editor who contributed to numerous soap operas in her native Australia (e.g. The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice, Prisoner and Neighbours).

From 1970 to 1977 she ran the Q Theatre Company, an amateur theatre company she co-founded with her husband, Don Quin, in Adelaide. Many of her 22 plays[1] and other Australian works were performed by the company.[2] Robert Stigwood purchased the film rights to her 1970 play, Dinkum Bambino, which had been favourably reviewed by The Advertiser's theatre critic, Mary Armitage.[3]

She was the aunt of Patrea Smallacombe, the Australian-born script writer for Coronation Street and EastEnders.

Betty Quin died on 28 August 1993 at the age of 70.[4]

Works

Plays
  • The Swallow Flies South, 1961
  • A Relative Affair, 1962
  • The Travelling Kind, 1962
  • A Question of Time, 1963
  • For Arts Sake, 1964
  • The Listeners, 1967
  • The Gentle Jigsaw, 1968
  • Cry For The Moon, 1970
  • Dinkum Bambino, 1970
  • The Constant Gardener, c.1970[5]
  • Up the Track, 1973
  • The Golden Years, 1977

Books
  • Quin, Betty (1991), Prisoner Cell Block-H: a dangerous affair, Thames Mandarin, ISBN 978-0-7493-0930-5

References
  1. "Betty Quin". AusStage. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. "Betty Quin [Collection]". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  3. N.S.W. Teachers' Federation (20 November 1974), "THEATRE", Education: Journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation, The Federation, 55 (19): 21, ISSN 0013-1156
  4. "5 February 1882 From Sunday School to Q Theatre". www.sahistorians.org.au. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  5. The constant gardener : [theatre program], [1970?], 1970, retrieved 10 November 2020


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