Boys Own McBeth explained

Boy's Own McBeth
Subtitle:a really rotten tragedy
Music:Grahame Bond
Lyrics:Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett
Productions:1979 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AusStage - Boys Own McBeth. www.ausstage.edu.au. 2017-03-11.
  2. Web site: Various - Boys Own McBeth. Discogs. en. 2017-03-11.
  3. News: 'McBeth' sold to US. 24 January 1981. 16,556. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 55. 17. National Library of Australia. The Canberra Times. 12 March 2017.