The No Hopers is a 1961 Australian play by Peter Batey.
It was given support from the Elizabethan Theatre Trust at a time when that was rare for Australian plays.
[2][3][4] A woman, Maggie, runs an outback pub with her no hoper husband.
She has a romance with commercial traveller Joe.
The play premiered at The Playhouse Theatre in Perth on 7 June 1961 and later toured country Western Australia and was presented in Melbourne in 1962.