Betty Quin

Betty Quin (c. 1922/1923 - 28 August 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).

Betty Quin
BornC. 1922/1923
Died28 August 1993 (aged 70)
Occupations
  • Playwright
  • scriptwriter
  • series script editor
  • actor
  • director
  • theatre operator
FamilyPatrea Smallacombe (niece)

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. Archived from the original on 10 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. "Betty Quin [Collection]". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  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 9 November 2020.
  5. The constant gardener : [theatre program], [1970?], 1970, retrieved 10 November 2020


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