The Beast in View is a 1959 Australian stage play by John Hepworth.
The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild then staged it in a censored version.
[2] Reviewing a 1961 production, The Bulletin said "The play is in fact completely incoherent.
I think the trouble is that Mr Hepworth was so busy trying to reproduce the surface of life, which' he does well, that he forgot about making an artistic whole.
"[3] The Age called it an "uneven play" but said it "had a certain vigor, an eye for character and a feeling for the spoken idiom.