Steve Waters
Steve Waters is a playwright whose plays include: The Last King of Scotland, adapted from the novel by Giles Foden (Sheffield Theatres, 2019); Limehouse (Donmar Warehouse, 2017); Temple (Donmar Warehouse, 2015); Why Can’t We Live Together? (Menagerie Theatre/Soho/Theatre503, 2013); Europa, as co-author (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Dresden State Theatre/Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz/Zagreb Youth Theatre, 2013); Ignorance/Jahiliyyah (Hampstead Downstairs, 2012); Little Platoons (Bush Theatre, 2011); The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre, 2009; revived in a new version at Sheffield Theatres, 2022); Fast Labour (Hampstead, in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2008); Out of Your Knowledge (Menagerie Theatre/ Pleasance, Edinburgh/East Anglian tour, 2006-8); World Music (Sheffield Crucible, 2003, and subsequent transfer to the Donmar Warehouse, 2004); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible, 2004); After the Gods (Hampstead Theatre, 2002); and English Journeys (Hampstead Theatre, 1998).
His writing for television and radio includes Safe House (BBC4), The Air Gap, The Moderniser (BBC Radio 4), Scribblers and Bretton Woods (BBC Radio 3).
He ran the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University between 2006 and 2011, and is now Professor of Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia, where he convenes the MA in Creative Writing: Scriptwriting programme. He is the author of The Secret Life of Plays, published by Nick Hern Books.
The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
Two plays
A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Last King of Scotland (stage version)
By Giles Foden Adapted by Steve WatersAn electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity, adapted from Giles Foden's multi-award-winning novel.
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By Steve WatersA short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.
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Death of a Cyclist
By Steve WatersA poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.
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Why Can't We Live Together?
By Steve WatersSet against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.
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In a Vulnerable Place
By Steve WatersA monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.
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The Play About Calais
By Steve WatersA short play based on the author's own visit to the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais and the people he met along the way.
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Steve Waters: Shorts
Five Plays
By Steve WatersFive short plays from acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, all of them deeply personal accounts of his attempts to make sense of twenty-first-century Britain and an ever-changing world.
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Limehouse
By Steve WatersA thrilling drama that takes us behind closed doors to imagine the personal conflicts behind the making of political history.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.
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£14.99£11.99
Temple
By Steve WatersA fictional account of the 2011 Occupy London movement, set in the heart of a very British crisis – a crisis of conscience, a crisis of authority and a crisis of faith.
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By Steve WatersAn absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.
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