Christine Evans Christine Evans i(A7688 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Originally from Australia, Christine Evans is an internationally produced playwright now resident in the U.S. Her work has been produced and developed at the American Repertory Theater (Trojan Barbie, world premiere), Playbox Theatre, U.K., New Vic (London), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), Darwin Theatre Company, the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts, Deck Chair Theatre, Vitalstatistix, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Magic Theatre, Spooky Action Theater, Theater Simple, Live Girls!, Kitchen Dog Theatre, hotINK Play Festival, Bricolage Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre, Perishable Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Crowded Fire, Ohio Theatre (NYC), The Irish Rep (NYC), Boston Playwrights Theater, Rattlestick Theatre, the Women’s Project, Centenary Stage and Cutting Ball.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 shortlisted Varuna Fellowships — Pitch Me! Fellowship for literary fiction 'River & Maude'.
2023 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Residential Fellowships for her speculative fiction work ‘River & Maude’
2018 runner-up The Lysicrates Prize for GALILEE
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Awards for Works

Three Marys 2023 single work musical theatre opera

'Three Marys melds music, myth and imagination to create a moving story of exile, survival and hope. 

'An international collaboration by award-winning artists composer Andrée Greenwell and librettist Christine Evans, this fully staged chamber opera tells an intergenerational story of a family of women who must flee for their lives. 

'Inspired by the French medieval legend of the biblical Three Marys, the tale follows the perilous journey of Maria, Magdalena and Sarah-Marie as they are banished from their homeland and forced out to sea in an oarless boat. 

'On their journey they encounter the opera’s Teen Chorus, the spirits of refugee children lost at sea – their memories and their names slipping away. Only Marzoug the fisherman is anchored to the land, by his promise to honour the stories of those thrown back by the ocean. He keeps watch. 

'Stripped to the raw elements of exile, the ocean, and survival, the women’s voices echo across the ages as people from all backgrounds still undertake desperate ocean journeys in search of refuge.'

Source: Production blurb.
2025 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Music Theatre
Trojan Barbie 2007 single work drama
— Appears in: Collection #7 : 27 New Plays from the Australian Script Centre 2008; (p. 29) 'Lotte, a modern-day English tourist who repairs dolls, is on a Cultural Tour for Singles in Troy when she encounters Andromache, fleeing the rape of her city. An American soldier captures Andromache; Lotte tries to intervene, only to be captured herself. Meanwhile, two American soldiers kidnap a young virgin (Polly X, who is Hecuba's daughter) to drink beer and party with the tigers at the Baghdad Zoo. When the prison camp is torched, the women are enslaved but Lotte is rescued by the British Embassy. Lotte's life returns to normal-- until a revenge-obsessed Hecuba claws her way up through the centuries to Lotte's doll-shop, in search of her murdered children's bodies.' (Source: Australian Script Centre website).
2008 shortlisted Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting
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