Christine Evans Christine Evans i(A7688 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Three Marys Christine Evans , Andrée Greenwell (composer), 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.

1 Drones, Projections, and Ghosts : Restaging Virtual War in Grounded and You Are Dead. You Are Here. Christine Evans , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Theatre Journal , December vol. 67 no. 4 2015; (p. 663-686)
'The United States relies increasingly upon digital technologies and live-virtual mixed-reality environments to prepare for, pursue, and recover from asymmetrical war. However, Iraqis and Afghans modeled in such systems are structurally excluded from occupying their 'first-person-shooter' viewpoints. This essay recasts Emma Willis's use of Levinasian ethics and Judith Butler's proposal that war's framing excludes certain subjects from full humanity to address the obstacles and opportunities for ethical spectatorship that virtual war's structural occlusions pose to theatre. It does so by investigating how two recent US plays, George Brant's Grounded and Christine Evans's You Are Dead. You Are Here., which incorporates Virtual Iraq and was written by this essay's author, interrogate virtualized war to reframe and restage absent Iraqi and Afghan perspectives and human consequences. The essay argues that despite their achievements, the 'hero's journey' structure of both plays, in concert with the wider public framing of war via the military-industrial-entertainment network, nevertheless reframed the Other as a vehicle for the Western soldier-subject's cathartic crisis. Expanding on Doreen Massey's vision of space as multiple trajectories rather than a depthless surface, the essay concludes that thick mapping, such as that modeled by the Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters (JDA), offers new options for performances engaging virtualized war, allowing them to de-couple narrative structure and spectatorship by generating heterotopic and heterogeneous interpretative spaces.' (Publication summary)
1 1 y separately published work icon Cloudless Christine Evans , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2015 8587563 2015 single work novel

'It's a still, hot summer in Perth, Australia. The heat is shimmering off the city's glass buildings, with not much to do but surrender to the cool of Beatty Park's swimming pool. However, something is moving amid all the stillness - a hidden snake sliding through shadows. It's moving through lives and connecting them with its sonar trembles: Auntie, in town with Jerome to find the kid's runaway mum; Kevin, tired of his bus route, dealing with raucous kids and bottlenecks and a city that seems to be growing hostile; Karri and his other-worldly sister Bat Girl; Jackie and her sisters, sharing smokes by the pool. In this exquisite, lyrical verse novel by acclaimed playwright Christine Evans, readers will witness the strange and invisible ways people are drawn together and pulled apart - and to venture to the catastrophic release that might ultimately return them home. ' (Publication summary)

1 1 You Are Dead. You Are Here. YADYAH Christine Evans , 2013 single work drama

'A multimedia play that tells the charged story of an encounter between an American soldier and an Iraqi girl blogger in Fallujah, 2003, through the lens of the technologies that connect them.' (Production summary)

1 1 Trojan Barbie Christine Evans , 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).
1 1 y separately published work icon My Vicious Angel (A One Act Play for Two Female Actors and Two MAusicians) Christine Evans , Perth : Apartners , 1998 Z842579 1998 single work drama
1 Black Pepper Christine Evans , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: 100% Synthetic 1996; (p. 35-38)
1 Between Love and Castration: On Brenda Walker's Novel "Crush" Christine Evans , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 40 no. 2 1995; (p. 41-49)
1 Crazy Paving and Roses Christine Evans , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: Fibs and Fallen Angels : UTS Writers' Group 10th Anthology 1994; (p. 72-81)
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