LISA EVANS   


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Plays by Lisa Evans

LISA EVANS
Better Than Burning
1st Produced:
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Company:
Temba Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Genre:
120 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
6
Parts Other:
5 Asian, 1 white
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Told over 16 years, this is the story of three generations of a Punjabi family living in Britain - the gaps they experience and the bridges they make - cultural, emotional and generational.
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LISA EVANS
Cat's Eye
1st Produced:
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Company:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
7
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Adaptation of Margaret Atwood's compelling novel about the nature and lifelong effects of bullying.
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LISA EVANS
Christmas Without Herods
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
Womens Theatre Group
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in prison in South America. Four women are held without trial, the 5th guards them
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LISA EVANS
Crime Of The Century
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Youth Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in rural Suffolk at the time of Captain Swing and the rural uprisings of the 1920's and 30's, this is the story of Maria Marten (famous as a victim) and her younger sister Ann, who made a different choice and met a different end. Juniors up.
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LISA EVANS
East Lynne
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 2005
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
From The Novel By Mrs Henry Wood
Synopsis:
A classic of Victorian literature, East Lynne was published in 1861. It was a sensational success, selling more than 500,000 copies and making its author as famous in her lifetime as Charles Dickens himself. Beautiful, kind and unblemished, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother. Until, in a fit of jealousy, she leaves her neglectful husband and infant children to elope with her aristocratic suitor. Her fall from grace is absolute. Can she be redeemed? And will she ever see her children again? Dramatic and moving, East Lynne draws aside the curtains of the respectable Victorian middle-classes to reveal their hypocrisy, cruelty and lust. And we witness the terrible punishment of those that dare to disobey a merciless moral code.
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LISA EVANS
Face Values
1st Produced:
Theatre Centre, London
1983/4
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in Kent in the summer of 1983, this play focuses on the women involved in the mining dispute
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LISA EVANS
Getting To The Foot Of The Mountain
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2002
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years - of an absent dad; of her fascination with a neighbourhood "bad boy" - and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play.
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LISA EVANS
Gift and the Glory, The
1st Produced:
2010
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Piece
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by John Moorhouse and Lisa Evans
Synopsis:
stories based on the local landscape
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LISA EVANS
Glad
1st Produced:
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Company:
Temba Theatre Company
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
120 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A play about women and madness focusing on the life a Mancunian woman born at the turn of the 20th C, her relationships with her inmate friends and with her son
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LISA EVANS
Homelands
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Nona Shepphard
Synopsis:
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LISA EVANS
Inside Out
1st Produced:
Theatre Centre, London
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre, 75 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The effect on herself and her family when a single parent is sent to prison
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LISA EVANS
Jamaica Inn
1st Produced:
Salisbury Playhouse
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2004
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel by Daphne du Maurier
Synopsis:
‘Shrubs of broom grow black and twisted, As if by Devil's fingers And the wind that never ceases, Like a chorus from the dead. Those who lived here it's for certain, would grow dark and tortured too' In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in the deadly activities taking place around her. Evocative, atmospheric and chilling, this new adaptation of Jamaica Inn has all the hallmarks of a great adventure classic — murder, mystery and malevolence.
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LISA EVANS
Lucky Country
1st Produced:
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1990
Company:
Theatre of Fact
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in Australia this play with music tells a story of two stolen children, of the theft of their land, and of their culture. It is as story of Aboriginal black Australians, the first people of the "lucky country" and their relationship with the land, their mother. Juniors up.
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LISA EVANS
Maid of Buttermere, The
1st Produced:
2009
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
6
Parts Other:
Community chorus, plus doubling of principle parts
Notes:
from the novel by Melvyn Bragg
Synopsis:
A story of passion, love and deception sweeps across the stage next Easter as Theatre by the Lake presents the world premiere of a dramatisation of Melvyn Bragg's novel, The Maid of Buttermere. The production, with music, features a cast of professional actors plus performers drawn from the local community. Set in Keswick and Buttermere in the early 19th century, this is the riveting true story of Mary Robinson, the daughter of the innkeeper of the Fish Inn at Buttermere, whose exquisite beauty attracts scores of admirers, including a bigamist and fortune hunter who woos and wins her. The play, adapted by Lisa Evans and forming part of Theatre by the Lake's 10th anniversary celebrations, tells of the couple's fateful meeting, consuming passion and tragic parting.
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LISA EVANS
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1st Produced:
Northampton, Royal
2008
Company:
Frantic Assembly
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In a present-day psychiatric hospital, Mary, a young woman convicted of murdering her baby daughter, obsessively pores over Shelley's novel. Within her imagination, scenes from the book spring to life, and she wanders among the characters as the malformed offspring of Victor Frankenstein hunts his creator across wastelands of snow, ice and the emotional tundra of revulsion and neglect. Are Mary and the creature both monsters, and were they born or made? Shelley's story is slickly reborn by Evans for the 21st century
- Sam Marlowe, The Times
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LISA EVANS
Mother's Day
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
60 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Concerns the relationship between a 40 year old feminist mother and her 20 year old daughter who comes home for Mother's Day to announce that she is pregnant
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LISA EVANS
Once We Were Mothers
1st Produced:
New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2004
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartbreak that motherhood brings to three very different mothers. Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And Milena, desperate to protect her children and carrying a terrible secret.
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LISA EVANS
Pearl, The
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An adaptation with music of John Steinbeck's novel. Secondary upwards.
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LISA EVANS
Red Chair, The
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre, 90 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
British Theatre Association Award 1988
Synopsis:
A play with music set in a remote village in China between the 1927 revolution and Mao's Land Reform. Seen from a young peasant girl, Puchao's viewpoint, using stories old and new - we witness her and her village's struggle to change as revolution beings an end to oppression with new freedom and new choices. Juniors up.
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LISA EVANS
Shadow of Light, The
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Based upon the life of Madeleine Smith - a middle class Glaswegian woman who scandalised and intrigued all levels of Victorian society when she was tried for the murder of her lover, and then acquitted on a verdict of Not Proven. The play explores the lives behind the façade of respectability and questions the abuse of power, where evil starts and who ultimately is responsible.
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LISA EVANS
Slap
1st Produced:
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1991
Company:
Humberside TIE
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in the early 1980's, this play tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who comes to live with a mother and son by the ocean in the USA. It is a play about loss and bereavement. Upper juniors up.
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LISA EVANS
Stamping, Shouting And Singing Home
1st Produced:
Kings Langley School, Kings Langley, Herts
1986
Company:
Watford Palace Theatre In Education Company
1st Published:
in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London, 1988
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play was inspired by the life of Sojourner Truth, the well known abolitionist and early feminist. It tells the story of her fictional great, great granddaughter, Lizzie Walker, and her transformation from child to adult activist in the southern states of America. Through the songs and stories of the women in her family Lizzie comes to understand the importance of her own past and her place in history. Young Audiences.
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LISA EVANS
Taking Liberties
1st Produced:
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1987
Company:
Watford Palace TIE
1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Youth Theatre, 75 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in the mid 19C, this play is about two working class northern families who win a lottery and move to a chartist farm in the south. Also using songs we trace what becomes of them when the dream is auctioned away. Upper juniors.
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LISA EVANS
Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
1c
Notes:
from novel by Anne Bronte
Synopsis:
Centres on the fate of Helen Huntingdon, forced out of her home by the brutality and infidelities of her drunken husband, and who proceeds to make a life for herself and her young son, Arthur
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LISA EVANS
Under Exposure
1st Produced:
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1983
Company:
Theatre Centre
1st Published:
in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London, 1988
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Youth Theatre, 60 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
British Theatre Association Award 1986
Synopsis:
A white sports photographer visits Cape Town, S. Africa and meets a family living in Crossroads Squatter camp. Using songs and stories we learn of their lives under apartheid. Juniors up.
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LISA EVANS
Up The Duff
1st Produced:
07 Nov 2009
Company:
Fresh Glory and York Theatre Royal
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A comedy about loss and expectation set in an ante natal class and a DIY superstore on the ringroad.
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LISA EVANS
Villette
1st Produced:
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
2005
Company:
Frantic Assembly
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
from novel by Charlotte Bronte
Synopsis:
A new life beckons for Lucy Snowe. Leaving England and her past behind, she arrives in the French town of Villette, equipped only with a sharp tongue, a lively imagination and an independent spirit. She soon finds work as a teacher, coping with a fierce headmistress and a classroom of unruly coquettish schoolgirls. But Villette has even greater challenges in store.
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LISA EVANS
Vindication
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
120 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The story of Mary Wollstencraft - a women of passion - and the woman who writes about her. Two different times, two different love stories. The same struggle.
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