The Ballad of the Lost Dogs

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THE BALLAD OF THE LOST DOGS by Christine Evans

A dark and poetic urban fable, where racial and class tensions play out under a freeway overpass. Bill, a violent single father, tries to teach his dreamy son Algy how to repair buildings. But when Bill evicts their derelict tenant Daphne (and a singing Police Chorus confiscate her 14 dogs) Algy runs away. Bill tracks him down, finding him hiding with the Dog Lady, and a deadly test of loyalty is forced upon Algy.

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About Christine Evans

Originally from Australia, Christine Evans is an internationally produced playwright now resident in the U.S. Her recent productions include, You Are Dead. You Are Here. at StreetSigns, NC; Slow Falling Bird at Georgetown’s Davis Centre for the Performing Arts and the University of San Francisco; Trojan Barbie at StreetSigns, NC; and the world premiere of Can’t Complain with Spooky Action Theater for the Women’s Voice Festival in Washington, DC. She has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts New Work Award, a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Artist Fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio Centre Fellowship, the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award; the 2009 Playwrights Theatre “Plays for the 21st Century” Award and Perishable Theatre’s Women’s Playwriting Award (2000 and 2001) among others. Christine is a Core Member of the Playwrights’ Centre of Minneapolis, a Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab alum and member of the Dramatists Guild.

Full Festival Schedule

Monday 22 February - BRAINPEOPLE by Oscar nominated playwright Jose Rivera (Puerto Rican)

Tuesday 23 February - THE LATE WEDDING by Christopher Chen (Chinese-American)

Wednesday 24 February - DIAGRAM OF A PAPER AIRPLANE by Carlos Murillo (Colombian-American)

Thursday 25 February - DREAMS OF HOME by Migdalia Cruz (Puerto Rican)

Friday 26 February - THE BALLAD OF THE LOST DOGS by Christine Evans (Canadian-Australian)

Saturday 27 February - A HUMAN INTEREST STORY (OR THE GORY DETAILS AND ALL) by Carlos Murillo (Colombian-American)

Sunday 28 February - THE NATURE OF CAPTIVITY by Matthew Paul Olmos (Mexican-American)

The Ballad of the Lost Dogs

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