Eunice Hanger
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| Born | (1911-03-08)8 March 1911 Mount Chalmers, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 16 October 1972(1972-10-16) (aged 61) Toowong, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation | Playwright, lecturer |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Relatives | Mostyn Hanger, brother |
Eunice Hanger (8 March 1911 – 16 October 1972) was an Australian playwright and educator.
Eunice Hanger was born at Mount Chalmers in Queensland on 8 March 1911 to parents Thomas Hanger and Myfanwy Granville-Jones. Her older brother, Mostyn Hanger, became Chief Justice of Queensland and was knighted.[1] She completed her secondary education at Gympie High School[2] and won a tertiary scholarship.[3] She then attended the University of Queensland, graduating with a BA in 1932 and MA in 1939.[4][5]
Qualified with her BA, Hanger began her teaching career at Gympie High School, where her father was headmaster.[2] While teaching at Roma High School, she was one of five teachers who went on a tour to study education in Japan, reporting that "suicides from despair at failure in the all-important examination are not at all uncommon".[6]
In 1940 she was transferred to Rockhampton High School and in 1948 was promoted to Brisbane High School.[2]
Her 1949 stage adaptation of M. Barnard Eldershaw's A House Is Built was not well received, despite having received the authors' approval.[7] Nelson Burns, in his review for The Courier-Mail, wrote "An over-plus of trite verbiage cluttered the trend of the story".[8] The following year, however, she had the audience "enthralled" by her play, The Summoner, which she produced and performed in.[9]
In 1955 her play Flood was runner-up to Oriel Gray's The Torrents and Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, joint winners of the Playwrights' Advisory Board's play of the year.[10] It was adapted for radio by Catherine Shepherd.[11]
Hanger died on 16 October 1972 at Toowong, Queensland.[2]
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