Robert Alan Evans . Playwright
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Go Go Mr Snow!

6/11/2024

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If, like me, you have the internal age of about 3-7, then you might want to go and see this at Leeds Playhouse. (https://www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/event/mr-snow/) It's on from 30th November - 4th January 2025. It's gonna be GORGEOUS! 
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"Sometimes you come across powerful snow. Snow that comes along once in a lifetime. You have to wait until you know how to handle it."
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All performances will be performed in English and British Sign Language. Performances from the 5 Dec will have pre-recorded creative audio description available in collaboration with Hear the Picture.
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Odd and the Frost Giants this Christmas

19/9/2024

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Happy Christmas! Only 96 days and 10 hours till the BIG DAY. 

And I have a new show Odd and the Frost Giants premiering at The Unicorn Theatre, London Bridge. 19th November - 31st December 2024. 
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This Christmas, follow unlikely hero Odd on an epic journey as he meets Norse Gods Odin, Loki and Thor, stuck in animal form in the human world. They are in trouble so Odd must use all his cunning to save them, and stop the invading Frost Giants from plunging the world into endless winter…
Combining extraordinary magic and humour, this spectacular festive tale is about finding friends in unlikely places, and the courage you never knew you had. A World Premiere stage adaptation by Robert Alan Evans and directed by the Unicorn’s new Artistic Director Rachel Bagshaw.

https://www.unicorntheatre.com/events/odd-and-the-frost-giants
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2 x Critics Scotland Awards for Lightning Ridge

19/9/2024

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Delighted that Lightning Ridge won awards for Best Performance for Gill Roberton and Best Production for Children and Young People at the 2024 CATS awards in Edinburgh. 

Created with Gill Robertson, Shona Reppe and Daniel Padden. Directed and Text adapted by Robert Alan Evans.
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Gill Robertson in Lightning Ridge Photo by Brian Hartley
“Lightning Ridge sees Catherine Wheels re-visit Pobby and Dingan, Ben Rice’s novella for young people in what is a remarkably involved piece of storytelling about imagination, loss and the nature of community. Re-imagined as a solo piece, performer Gill Robertson conjures up life in the near-desert world of Australian outback opal mining town Lightening Ridge. She does so with every inch of the vividness that eight year-old protagonist Kellyanne conjures up her imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan. This is a thoroughly considered piece of storytelling. There again, it needs to be - it carries a twist that grown-ups might see coming from quite a long way off, and be braced for, but for which young people will not necessarily pick up all the warning signs.” Thom Dibdin - All Edinburgh Theatre
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Death Drop: Back in the Habit

7/9/2022

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I've been writing a killer drag comedy...

"Death Drop Back In The Habit sees a gaggle of fabulous Nuns trapped in their Convent with a serial slayer slashing their way through the Sisters. As the clues are unearthed by Sis Marple, you’ll be laughing in the pews as the hilarious, fierce, all-drag killer comedy comes to its thrilling and uproarious conclusion. 
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The drag murder mystery sensation is returning with a brand-new show: Death Drop: Back In The Habit. Touring across the UK from this autumn, the new production – written by Rob Evans and directed once again by Jesse Jones - kicks off on 27 October."

Now with a stint in The Garrick Theatre, the tour dates and venues are here. 


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Lightning Ridge

14/3/2022

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In February 2022 I made Lightning Ridge (based on Ben Rice's amazing story Pobby and Dingan) with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company. The script came together through improv and devising from Gill Robertson whose performance and creativity were quite stunning. 
The show was an experiment in making a truly collaborative show, without suffering from the blur and compromise that some devised shows can suffer from. I wanted to write and direct a sharp script, but using material from improv and conversation with the creative team. 
Perhaps because the artists involved are all experienced group devisors, but also make solo work, we were quick to cut, edit, polish and not settle for something that wasn't honed and crafted. 
I think the result is beautiful and very emotional. 
It was always meant to be a show that could go anywhere and work round any further lockdowns, restrictions or budget restrictions. The initial run was only a couple of weeks, but I think the show will be back later in 2022. 
The co-creators are Rob Evans, Gill Robertson, Shona Reppe and Daniel Padden. 
Photography: Brian Hartley
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Christmas Dinner @ Lyceum, Edinburgh

19/12/2021

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Christmas Dinner did get on stage in December 2021 at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. And it was magical and moving. And then Omicron came and stopped the whole thing, but it was fun while it lasted. REALLY FUN. I mean, there was a giant sprout. That made me so happy. 
Photos by Mihaela Bodlovic
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When I Lie To You, Do You Love Me More?

19/10/2021

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NoƩmie Gantier
Arnaud Anckaert of Theatre du Prisme is a fantastic director and I am delighted that this 2019 commission will be touring France in 2021. It's a beautiful piece of work and a real collaboration between myself, Arnaud, all at Theatre du Prisme and the excellent translator Séverine Magois. 

Theatre du Prisme's production of Simon la Gadouille is also touring in 2021. See their website for details. 

Si je te mens, tu m'aimes?

​Quand Lola arrive dans sa nouvelle école (la troisième cette année), elle repère Théo, rappant tout seul dans un coin de la cour de récré, et il semblerait qu’on assiste au début d’une histoire d’amour… deux amoureux maudits par le sort qui se retrouvent en secret sur le toit de l’école. Mais, quand cet amour vire à l’aigre et que le père de Lola menace de tuer Théo, tout devient beaucoup, beaucoup plus sombre.
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Christmas @ The Lyceum, Edinburgh

19/10/2021

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Christmas Dinner will premier at The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh this December 2021. It's got a MASSIVE sausage in it. And a sprout. Not to mention snow, ice-witches, golden tap shoes, a haunted forest and a girl called Little Spark. 
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CHRISTMAS DINNER
By Robert Alan Evans
Directed by Gill Robertson
After a horrible year, stage hand Lesley has decided that Christmas should be cancelled. The only festive joy she wants is the turkey sandwich in her lunch box. So she is shutting down the theatre, turning off the lights, packing up the glitter curtains, the giant beanstalk, the fake snow and going home to have dinner alone...
But as the bells of St Cuthbert’s strike twelve, it seems the theatre has other ideas... from the back of the costume cupboard, a troupe of festive spirits emerge with an absolute sack full of festive cheer. Is this the last thing Lesley needs? or can this strange Christmas Gang and their stories help her feel the magic of Christmas again?
Join us for a feast of fun for everyone (even Lesley!) and make The Lyceum Christmas magic part of your family celebration this year. 
#ChristmasDinner
Christmas Dinner is a Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh production. in association with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company.


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While you were away...

19/10/2021

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Lots of writing has been happening. 

When lockdown began in 2020, I was three weeks into rehearsals for a new dance show with Barrowland Ballet and Natasha Gilmore. Learning to Fly should now premiere in 2023. Hopefully someone will remember the moves. 

Meanwhile, I wrote a book. It's in a box. Who knows what it's like. 

Then I wrote a new play called The Ache. Hopefully more news of that soon. 

In France, When I Lie to You Do You Love Me More? is going well thanks to the sterling efforts of Theatre du Prisme. I have not seen it yet. I look forward it. 

Leeds Playhouse had to delay the Christmas show Fairy Poppins and the Naughty Winter Ghost until the spring of 2021. It was so much fun to go and sit in the open air and beautiful warm sunshine of a Leeds day and hear about the frozen forests of winter. 

The other Christmas show from 2020 - A Real Christmas Ghost Story - managed to get a run at Theatre Clwyd before lockdown came in once more, so I hope that whoever saw/listened to that had a good time and maybe one day I'll get to hear/see it myself. 

​And it was a delight to be asked by Tom Mothersdale to write three monologues for the Lockdown Plays Podcast, produced by Tom, Wilf Scolding and Anoushka Warden. I was lucky to have Lesley Sharp, Sinead Matthews and Harry Melling perform the pieces - See, Hear and Speak - and they are really worth a listen. 

And amidst all this I have scraping, peeling, drilling and lifting (lots of lifting) as I renovate a new home. Surely all part of life's rich tapestry. 
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Hiatus

19/10/2021

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a: an interruption in time or continuity : BREAK especially : a period when something (such as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted 

after a 5-year hiatus from writing


​b
: the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound
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