Daniel Evans Daniel Evans i(A99138 works by) (a.k.a. Dan Evans)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon I Just Came to Say Goodbye Lauren Clelland , Caroline Dunphy , Daniel Evans , Amy Ingram , Kieran Swann , 2017 12635803 2017 single work drama

'Based on anonymous apologies and real stories of forgiveness submitted by your friends and frenemies, Brisbane’s own The Good Room bring you this brand new work - a glitter-fuelled finale event for the wronged and the righteous. Bridges will be burned. Hatchets might be buried. Nobody escapes unscathed.

'A wildly theatrical and intimately honest testimony, I JUST CAME TO SAY GOODBYE crashes head-first into the foggy terrain of forgiveness to share hundreds of stories of guilt, grudges, remorse, and revenge.'

Source: Brisbane Festival.

1 1 The Tragedy of King Richard III Marcel Dorney , Daniel Evans , 2016 single work drama

'Crippled king. Fierce warrior. Cunning psychopath. For four centuries, Shakespeare’s Richard III has been regarded as the greatest villain in world drama; a bottled spider, loved and loathed for spinning a web of lies and violence around the monarchy.

'In 2012, Richard’s resting place was finally uncovered: an unmarked, unremarkable, shallow grave beneath a supermarket car park - too small for the remains or the myth. But Richard - the crooked shadow, the symbol of unchecked ambition - is larger than any one person, living or dead.

'This year, he’s getting the royal treatment.

'The Tragedy of King Richard III is an excavation of the play, the man and ourselves. Bigger than history, bigger than Shakespeare, this is a story of rampant revenge with some hard questions for us all: What are our dreams of power? Have we created a civilisation that corrupts those who rule it? Or do we need their corruption - to let us off the hook?

'Armed with some of Queensland’s most intrepid theatre makers, this promises to be a fast and furious blood-soaked battle royale, where nobody’s getting out clean - or alive.' (Production summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Seagull Daniel Evans , Todd MacDonald , 2015 8727566 2015 single work drama

'When famed but fading theatrical diva Arkadina brings her entourage ­– including her writer lover Trigorin and tortured, unconventional playwright son Konstantin – to seek solace at her brother’s country hideaway, she unwittingly sets light to a powderkeg of repressed emotions as flames of passion are lit and extinguished and love triangles mesh together and drift apart.'

Source: QTC.

1 2 y separately published work icon Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore Daniel Evans , 2015 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2015 7896507 2015 single work drama

'What if Oedipus lived next door? What if the whole street knew what he’d been up to with his own mother, because of the word daubed in fluorescent letters on his garage door?

'Queensland Premier’s Drama Award winner Daniel Evans brings the drama and horror of an Ancient Greek myth to the sleepy cul-de-sacs of modern Australian disturbia in this wild, wonderful ride spinning off from Sophocles’ 2500-year-old Theban plays. Evans (The China Incident, I Want to Know What Love Is, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne) shines a blacklight into the bedrooms and basements of the most infamous family in mythology by reimagining them as the unseen but most gossiped-about family on the block.

'In this dark and savagely funny play we’re led by a chorus of quirky characters into the secret, tragic, desperate lives of a family cursed to be the centre of attention. Evans asks what devils lurk in our own backyards? How do tight-knit communities cope with unspeakable tragedy? How do we point the finger when there’s nowhere to lay the blame? And who ends up playing the monster?

'Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is the story of a tragedy no one saw coming, but everyone wants to talk about.' (Production summary)

1 1 I Want To Know What Love Is Daniel Evans , Amy Ingram , Lauren Clelland , Caroline Dunphy , Kieran Swann , 2014 single work drama

'Based entirely on anonymous stories, I Want To Know What Love Is is a theatrical work made in response to the fragments of love, yearning and heartbreak submitted by the general public via the specially-built website wewantyourlove.com.

'You are invited to bear witness to the love stories of strangers – some epic, others fleeting – as we ask some hard questions about the heart: What have you done for love? Is yours the greatest love story never told? Who, or what, do/did you love? Why? Is love science or poetry? What does love look/smell/taste like? What is the ultimate love song or lyric? Was there ever a time when love just wasn’t enough ...

'I Want To Know What Love Is throws a spotlight on long-buried thoughts, stories, crushes and conquests as secret confessions are transformed into magnificent declarations centre stage. This is a celebration of the ordinary made extraordinary. This is for you. '

1 Vodka Cranberry and Soda Daniel Evans , 2012 single work drama
1 Never For Ever Daniel Evans , 2011 single work drama humour
1 It Aint Ova Til the Young People Sing Daniel Evans , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lowdown , June vol. 31 no. 3 2009; (p. 12-13)
1 Holy Guacamole Daniel Evans , 2009 single work drama humour

'In the depths of suburbia lives Eustace - a half-boy, half-avocado hybrid of human outcast and exotic fruit. It's not easy being green when you live on the fringes of good taste and monstrous 'normality'. In this black-green comic fairy-tale, backyard magic and suburban angst collide with mouth-watering results!. (Source: !E News 3 July 2009)

1 Holidayze Daniel Evans , 2008 single work drama children's mystery
1 2 The Reunion Daniel Evans , Rebecca Meston , 2007 single work drama humour 'You've RSVP'd to your high school reunion. So has your 17 year old self. What's it going to be? Hugs and kisses or war? It's amazing what can change in ten years.' Source: /www.ourbrisbane.com/whatson/ (Sighted 11/11/2007
1 A Trip Down Brunswick Daniel Evans , 2007 single work drama This short play concerns the sights, the sounds, the stories, the sexualities that are Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley.
1 Ivy Shambitt and The Sound Machine Daniel Evans , 2007 single work drama children's
— Appears in: Morris Gleitzman's Worry Warts [and] Ivy Shambitt and the Sound Machine 2010; (p. 66-113)
'Apronwood is a town of tea parties, summer solstice dances and bake-offs. But beneath the pastel shades, there is something much darker at work. When young outcast Pippa Van Hoozer is rescued from the town bullies by a strange small girl called Ivy Shambitt, magical things begin to happen. You see this girl has a gift that holds the key to not only unlocking the secret of Apronwood's past but the hopes, dreams and desires of everyone who comes into contact with her. Before long everyone has a plan for Ivy but little do they know, Ivy also has a plan for them!' Source: www.backbone.org.au/ (Sighted 04/06/2007)
1 2 Donna's Party Simon Brook , Felicity Carpenter , Daniel Evans , Michelle Miall , 2006 single work drama
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