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Patrick Evans

PATRICK EVANS  

 Nationality:    New Zealander
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Patrick Evans has taught New Zealand literature at the University of Canterbury since 1978. He has written plays which have been performed in New Zealandand Australia. He has written three award-winning short plays  The Meeting which won the Christchurch Star best new play award for 1985; Stuff: A Play on Words, first performed 1993, won the Theatre Foundation Award for best new playscript 1995; and Cold Turkey won the Aoraki Festival playwriting award, 1993. His most recent publication is Gifted (VUP 2010), a novel about Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson.

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

 Cold Turkey         Gifted         Meeting, The         Men's Room, The         Nudity May Offend         Stuff - A Play On Words

Cold Turkey

Synopsis:
Bruce and Graham have given up smoking and to make sure they do not succumb to temptation they go away to an isolated house in the country

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1st Produced:
-    1995

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gifted

Synopsis:
adapted from the acclaimed novel of the same name by award-winning writer Patrick Evans, Gifted is a beautifully funny, clever and moving literary love triangle. It is 1955. New Zealand's literary landscape is about to change forever. Janet Frame meets Frank Sargeson. Behind his famous hedge, Frank has been having a difficult time with his writing, but his veggies are nearly ready and his old mate Harry is due any day soon. The idyllic world of the literary Father of the Nation' is about to crack open when not only Janet comes to stay  with her riddling speech and baffling behaviour  but Harry appears.
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1st Produced:
Rudolf Steiner School Theatre, Christchurch, NZ    22 Aug 2013

Organisations:
Fortune Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Meeting, The

Synopsis:
University english Department monthly meeting is thrown into disarray

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1st Produced:
-    1985

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Men's Room, The

Synopsis:
a men's group has been meeting for twenty years. a new member shakes things up

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1st Produced:
-    1999

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nudity May Offend

Synopsis:
The teachers have prepared a welcoming party for the new Drama teacher - but she fails to arrive

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1st Produced:
-    1999

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Stuff - A Play On Words

Synopsis:
a couple have been invited to a meal with friends but when they arrive at their house the lights are out and no one seems to be in

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1st Produced:
-    1993

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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