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.
World Music
A subtle and topical play about European attitudes to Africa.
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The Unthinkable
A hard-hitting play about the collapse of idealism in contemporary politics.
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Fast Labour
A powerful play about the growing culture of human exploitation in the UK, delving below the surface to reveal a personal account of life as a migrant worker.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£8.99£7.19On the Beach
By Steve WatersPart of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Published in volume The Contingency PlanResilience
By Steve WatersPart of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Published in volume The Contingency PlanThe Secret Life of Plays
By Steve WatersA guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Little Platoons
By Steve WatersMoving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens.
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Ignorance/Jahiliyyah
By Steve WatersAn absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.
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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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£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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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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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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