Boys Own McBeth

Boy's Own McBeth
a really rotten tragedy
MusicGrahame Bond
LyricsGrahame Bond and Jim Burnett
BookGrahame Bond and Jim Burnett
Productions1979 Australia
1981 Los Angeles

Boy's Own McBeth is a musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett.

Set in Australia, it concerns Terry Shakespeare, a 42-year-old man who has been a student at the fictional Dunsinane Boys School for 36 years, deliberately failing rather than facing the outside world.

After a season at The Kirk Gallery in Sydney from July 1979, Boy's Own McBeth opened in a bigger production at the Paris Theatre in November 1979. It toured widely across Australia for two years.[1]

A cast recording was released in 1979.[2]

The production also played at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles.[3]

References

  1. ^ "AusStage - Boys Own McBeth". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Various - Boys Own McBeth". Discogs. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. ^ "'McBeth' sold to US". The Canberra Times. Vol. 55, no. 16, 556. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 24 January 1981. p. 17. Retrieved 12 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.