Lisa Evans

Foreword written by Workin' Moms creator, executive producer, writer, and star of the television comedy series, Catherine Reitman. This book was written by working moms, for working moms. When it comes time to go "back to work," what additional challenges might mom expect? Is it possible to implement conscious parenting while simultaneously achieving career success and also discovering true fulfillment in life? What sort of new learning curves may she face mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually? How might she adapt to the social status change to "mom" in the public world, while still maintaining the most important role of mom at home in private? Let's get real and start the conversation.

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It takes courage to share a personal story and that is exactly what twelve inspiring women have done. These stories are told by Australian women in business. This is the second in the series of Stories From The Heart. We all have stories worth sharing and I want these books to inspire others to step up, stand out and share their stories.

Winner of Best Play for Young Audiences in the Writers’ Guild Awards 2016The tide was turning – though local governments disagreed, it would soon be illegal to segregate black Americans from white Americans on public buses, in waiting rooms or in restaurants. And yet – in the early 1960s, many states across the south of America kept discriminating against African-Americans… In modern day Britain, four actor-storytellers tell the stories of the Freedom Riders – principled citizens riding buses across Alabama and Mississippi, drawing attention to this illegal discrimination, and facing up to terrifying violence with peaceful resistance. The story of the Freedom Riders is one of ordinary people becoming a civil rights movement, taking on the establishment and changing the world. In a time of Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin, and Mark Duggan, what does it mean for people to come together and rise up?

A collection of short stories. Experiences and observations while riding public transportation in California, having lost my driver's license and car, following my divorce.

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain’s leading playwrights.Bram Stoker’s Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern world. Its inhabitants can go anywhere, even toTransylvania. They can communicate globally in the blink of an eye. But their feet, in their modern shoes, walk upon the gravestones of a vast cosmic graveyard. Count Dracula is still alive. He could always come through walls, arrive on a moonbeam but, in the modern world, he has emails, smartphones, webcams and the worldwide web…Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Lisa Evans: Mary is imprisoned in a present-day psychiatric hospital, convicted of murdering her baby daughter. During her incarceration she becomes obsessed with Mary Shelley’s famous novel. The novel comes to lifewithin her imagination, and we are left to question just who the realmonster really is, Mary or Frankenstein himself…

Keswick, 1940 – Britain is at war with Germany. Maggie’s life is under invasion too: Gran knitting for England, evacuee lodgers, helping with the war effort – and now a fund-raising concert party! Husband Rob is due home on RAF leave and best friend Peg has just learnt that she’s pregnant – but no such luck for Maggie and Rob…Nostalgia, romance, laughter and tears all feature in this comedy world première, full of live music, songs and dance from the war years.

A sister piece to Evans’ seminal play for young audiences Stamping, Shouting And Singing Home. This new play explores the environmental and social impact of Hurricane Katrina on the communities in New Orleans.

I had a great great granma. She took Sojourner Truth as her name. I am her great great granddaughter. I am Mama's daughter. I am Lizzie Walker...It is 1950s America, the Deep South; a world on the verge of change but still tainted by everyday injustices and the remnants of slavery. Lizzie and her family long for progress, inspired by their ancestor Sojourner Truth, freedom fighter, and just one of the many heroes the history books forgot. With Sojourner's dreams pumping in their veins they fight their own battles, old and new. But when the fight takes a life, can they summon up her courage and keep dreaming, or will it destroy them? "Shouting, Stamping and Singing Home" is a production by Polka Theatre aimed at young people aged 12-16. It premieres in October 2006 as part of Black History Month.

Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And Milena, desperate to protect her children, carries a terrible secret. A moving and powerful play about the experiences of three very different mothers.

When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years - of an absent dad; of her fascination with a neighbourhood "bad boy" - and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play. A warm and witty new play, Getting to the Foot of the Mountain opens at the Birmingham Rep in May 2002.