Eunice Hanger

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]

• A House is Built, 1949
• The Summoner, 1950
• Upstage, 1950
• Foundations, 1952
• Flood, 1955
• 2D, 1958
• The Frogs, 1960