The Unthinkable

Cast: 3f 4m

Staging: Multipurpose set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 9781854598264Publication Date:
14 Oct 2004
Size: 198mm x 130mm£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Crucible Studio, Sheffield, 2004

The Unthinkable

By Steve Waters

Paperback £8.99£7.19

A hard-hitting play about the collapse of idealism in contemporary politics.

The founder members of a radical think-tank meet to toast their success – fifteen years of second-guessing the next big idea; fifteen years of shaping politics on the left; fifteen years of thinking the unthinkable. But there's a spectre at the feast, and a scandal is about to break that will ruin more than just the party.

Steve Waters' play The Unthinkable was first staged at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, in 2004.

Press Quotes

'Steve Waters has a refreshing willingness to embrace contemporary life... The Unthinkable embraces many big ideas, global and local, philosophical and political, as well as personal'

Independent

'Steve Waters' excellent new play is about the death of idealism, the killing of a political dream. It's a fascinating study of the way the Left has been increasingly influenced by the Right without anybody really appreciating what has happened. The story is told in broad strokes, often funny and always hugely theatrical'

Sheffield Star

Cast: 3f 4m

Staging:Multipurpose set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,96 pages ISBN: 9781854598264Publication Date:
14 Oct 2004
Size: 198mm x 130mm£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by Steve Waters:

Fast Labour
Steve Waters: Shorts
In a Vulnerable Place
Ignorance/Jahiliyyah
Death of a Cyclist
World Music
The Contingency Plan
The Last King of Scotland
Out of Your Knowledge
The Play About Calais
The Secret Life of Plays
The Contingency Plan
On the Beach
Temple
Why Can't We Live Together?
Little Platoons
Resilience
Limehouse

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