doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Christine Evans

CHRISTINE EVANS

  
Nationality:    Australian
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Peregrine Whittlesey Agency  

Christine Evans was born in London and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Prior to moving to the US in 2000, she played saxophone in Perth and Sydney bands and directed music for a wide range of theatrical events, including her own plays. Her award-winning plays have been produced in the U.S., Australia, England and Wales and published by Samuel French, Theatre Forum, and in Smith & Kraus' annual Best Monologues collections. In 2013 NoPassport Press published a trilogy of her plays, WAR PLAYS. Selected productions include YOU ARE DEAD. YOU ARE HERE. (HERE, 2013);TROJAN BARBIE (American Repertory Theatre, 2009; Playbox Theatre, U.K. 2011; Charing Cross Theatre, London, 2011; Garage Theater, 2012 and elsewhere); MOTHERGUN (Perishable Theatre; Actors' Theater; Emergency Theater Project; Lincoln Center Director's Lab and elsewhere); WEIGHTLESS (Perishable Theatre); SLOW FALLING BIRD (Crowded Fire, San Francisco; Metro Arts, Brisbane; Darwin Theatre Company and elsewhere), MY VICIOUS ANGEL (Vitalstatistix; Belvoir St. Theatre; Adelaide International Festival, Australia; A.B.C. Radio Drama, Sydney) and PUSSY BOY (Belvoir St. Downstairs). Her short play FISHBOWL, produced by Red Fern ("30+NYC") and the Boston Theater Marathon, is a finalist for the 2015 Heideken Award. In 2015, Spooky Action (DC) will premiere her newest play, CAN'T COMPLAIN. Christine's plays have been read or work-shopped at the Young Vic and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London; the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, the hotINK Festival of New Plays, Synchronicity Theatre, Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey, Trinity Rep, the Irish Rep (NYC), Cutting Ball's "Risk Is This" Festival, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Centenary Stage's Women Playwrights' Series, the Process Series at UNC Chapel Hill, the Z Space, the Playwrights' Center and elsewhere. Honors include an Australia Council New Work Award to develop YOU ARE DEAD. YOU ARE HERE., the Rockefeller Center Bellagio Residency Award, a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) Playwriting Fellowship Award (2013 and 2009) and Merit Award (2011); two Perishable Theatre Women's Playwriting Competition awards, a Yaddo Artist Residency, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, the Monash National Play Award (Australia), the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the "Plays for the 21st Century Award" and the Weston Prize for Dramatic Writing. Christine is a 2012-15 Core Member of the Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, a 2011 O'Neill Finalist, a 2010-13 Resident Artist at HERE Arts (NY), and a Women's Project Playwrights' Lab Alum. She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Brown. She served as Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard University from 2007-12. In 2012 she moved to Washington, DC, where she joined Georgetown University's Department of Performing Arts faculty.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/227696

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Christine Evans's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         +30NYC         Alice         All Soul's Day         Galilee         Ivory Circle         Mothergun         My Vicious Angel         Pussy Boy         Slow Falling Bird         Trojan Barbie         Visiting the Relatives         Weightless         You Are Dead. You Are Here

+30NYC

Synopsis:
a sustainable project, this evening of short plays examines how our actions today will directly affect our lives in 30 years. as per the mission of Red Fern theatre Company, that each production is paired with a philanthropy whose work relates to the social themes of the play, +30NYC is paired with Material For the Arts.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunstetter, Victor Ismael Cazares, Christine evans, Michael John Garces, Ashlin Halfnight, Mac Rodgers, Tommy Smith

1st Produced:
Center Stage, NY    06 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Short Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Alice

Synopsis:
Portrays the "dreams and images which stalk the minds of modern teenagers".

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Fremantle, WA    28 Jul 1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
puppetry

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  puppeteers

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12424

Top of Page Top of Page

All Soul's Day

Synopsis:
a boy and his silent aunt find themselves on a beach, after their village has been decimated by war. Through games, stories and finally confrontation, the boy fights to reach his aunt and to reinvent a world where life can go on. a tango at the edge of oblivion

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Perishable Theatre, Providence, Ri    2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Perishable Theatre anthology (order at www.perishable.org), 2002   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
ten min drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  1b

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Galilee

Synopsis:
Galilee takes place amidst the collision of competing economic and ecological forces in a small Australian coastal town on the Great Barrier Reef. As the sea temperatures rise and the world's first hybrid blackfin sharks appear, biology student Carol, her entrepreneur mother Mardy, and the old-time diver Jimmy struggle with their own decisions--fight, flee, or adapt?

Notes:
Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Ivory Circle

Synopsis:
The creative team from Barking Gecko wrote and devised Visiting the relatives and The Ivory Circle after safaris to Thailand and Sumatra.

Notes:
devised by Christine Evans, Grahame Gavin, Diane Jeffries, Paul Tolton and Lou Westbury

1st Produced:
Subiaco Theatre Gardens, Subiaco, WA    23 Feb 1994

Organisations:
Festival of Perth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23292

Top of Page Top of Page

Mothergun

Synopsis:
Set in a refugee camp somewhere between europe and Hell, 3 survivors of a fracticidal war with no common language, must rely on the Peacekeeper (an unreliable translator) to bargain their way to survival.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Providence, Ri    2001

Organisations:
Perishable Theatre

1st Published:
Perishable Women's Playwriting anthology (available Perishable theatre), 2001
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
35 mins One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

My Vicious Angel

Synopsis:
Pearl, a trapeze artist with a broken spine, wants to fly again: her ghostly twin Merle wants to land. Set in a kind of haunted hospital where past and present collide.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Waterside Hall, Port Adelaide, SA    Jul 1998

Organisations:
Vitalstatistix

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
75 mins One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  live music

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60431

Top of Page Top of Page

Pussy Boy

Synopsis:
an urban fable concerning a violent man and his son, a Dog Lady with 14 dogs, and a singing Police Chorus.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Kicking & Screaming

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Full-Length 75 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/22902

Top of Page Top of Page

Slow Falling Bird

Synopsis:
Conceived on the boat of an asylum seeker, Fish Child hovers above the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre in the Australian desert, reluctant to be born. Her mother becomes enmeshed in an increasingly deadly struggle with a prison guard, bargaining for her child's future. The grim and surprising outcome forms a dark prism through which the brutal realities confronting those who arrive unbidden in Australia's waters are refracted.

Notes:
Developed At the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2003 (www.playwrightsfoundation.org) Songs in play: singing skills required.

1st Produced:
Monash University, Clayton, VIC    14 Mar 2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/slow-falling-bird
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
2 act 90 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  2 Chorus (gender unspecified)

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93692

Top of Page Top of Page

Trojan Barbie

Trojan Barbie
Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an english tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of euripides' Trojan Women. Lotte Jones, a doll repair expert, needs a vacation. She books herself on a cultural tour for singles and travels with them to modern-day Troy, where she finds more of a change of scene than she'd bargained for she's in the midst of an attack by the Greek army threatening to destroy the last fragments of a mighty civilization. When the camp is torched, the women are enslaved and Lotte is rescued by the British embassy. Her life returns to normal  until a revenge-obsessed Hecuba claws her way up through the centuries into Lotte's doll shop, in search of her murdered children's bodies. Part contemporary Drama, part homage to euripides' Trojan Women, Trojan Barbie recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. Poetic, compassionate, and tinged with great warmth and humor, Trojan Barbie is an epic war story with a most unlikely heroine, who always looks on the bright side even as past and present collide about her.

Notes:
a Car-Crash encounter with euripides' Trojan Women. Trojan Barbie is the winner of the 2007 Jane Chambers Award, the Playwrights First "Plays for the 21st Century" Award, And the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, 2009.

1st Produced:
Exit Theatre San Francisco, USA    2007

Organisations:
Cutting Ball Theater

1st Published:

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Visiting the Relatives

Synopsis:
The creative team from Barking Gecko wrote and devised Visiting the relatives and The Ivory Circle after safaris to Thailand and Sumatra. Visiting the Relatives deals with the trade in young orang-utans, presenting graphic images of the closeness of these threatened animals to their near relatives, homo sapiens (us!).

Notes:
devised by Christine Evans, Grahame Gavin, Diane Jeffries, Paul Tolton and Lou Westbury

1st Produced:
Subiaco Theatre Gardens, Subiaco, WA    23 Feb 1994

Organisations:
Festival of Perth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23292

Top of Page Top of Page

Weightless

Synopsis:
An American family become trapped in their penthouse apartment, isolated from the world by wealth, fear, and an excessive attention to hygiene. A live in maid is constantly remodeled by her plastic surgeon mistress, at the cost of her memory, gender and sense of gravity. But when gravity returns, the familys mirror-ball world explodes, leaving a surprising survivor.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Workshop production, Brown New Plays Festival    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

You Are Dead. You Are Here

Synopsis:
Staging the collision between an American soldier and an Iraqi girl blogger, You Are Dead. You Are Here. dramatizes their dueling perspectives in one riveting performance. This premiere collaboration from Transit Lounge employs a highly innovative multi-media approach, drawing on cutting edge military technology while speaking to the video-game generation. You Are Dead. You Are Here. is a haunting story for the digital age that taps a hidden but powerful need to bear witness and come to terms with recent wars.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
[Equity showcase] HERE Arts Center - Transit Lounge
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013    05 Jun 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/you-are-dead-you-are-here   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
multi media play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page