Steve Waters

9 products
Fast Labour
Fast Labour
$18.95
Ignorance
Ignorance
$20.95
Cover image for Limehouse, isbn: 9781848426429
Limehouse
$20.95
Little Platoons
Little Platoons
$20.95
Temple
Temple
$20.95
The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
$30.95
The Secret Life of Plays
The Secret Life of Plays
$30.95
The Unthinkable
The Unthinkable
$18.95
World Music
World Music
$18.95

Fast Labour

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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.

In Ukraine, Victor had a business, a family and a home, but things have changed and he's fled to the UK in search of a better life. Now he's doing everything from gutting fish to picking carrots.

But Victor's a strong-minded man. He's not staying at the bottom of the economic food chain, he's going to build a business of his own and play the gang masters at their own game.

Fast Labour

Ignorance

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1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible consequences that are to change world history. In London, sixty years later, a university professor’s work analysing those consequences takes on a frightening personal dimension when Layla Ahmad walks into his office...
Ignorance

Limehouse

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A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale.

Britain 1981.

Four prominent Labour politicians gather in private in east London, desperate to find a political alternative. Should they split their party, divide their loyalties, and risk betraying everything they believe in?

Cover image for Limehouse, isbn: 9781848426429

Little Platoons

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A group of West London parents are driven by desperation to take the new government up on their offer and start their own ‘free school'. They want to create an education that their children will enjoy rather than endure. But as they find their lives given over to a disturbing version of the Big Society, their fervor turns to panic.
Little Platoons

Temple

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October 15th, 2011: Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
October 21st: A building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors.
October 28th: City of London initiates legal action against Occupy protestors to begin removing them from outside the Cathedral.
Temple premieres at the Donmar Warehouse in May 2015, starring Simon Russell Beale.
Temple

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

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A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change—an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

In On the Beach, glaciologist Will has followed in his father's footsteps, dedicating himself to studying climate change. Back from Antarctica, he visits his parents on the Norfolk coast. With catastrophic flooding growing more likely by the day, he has news that forces long-submerged secrets to rise to the surface.

In Resilience, Will, freshly appointed as a scientific advisor, is in Westminster and he's out of his depth. Surrounded by ministers manoeuvring to impress, and with the threat of environmental disaster, can he get them to listen before it's too late?

Impressive in scale and chilling as a prediction of our immediate future, the two plays are complementary but can also stand alone.

Steve Waters' The Contingency Plan was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2009, and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award. It was revived, in this fully revised and updated version, at Sheffield Theatres in 2022, directed by Caroline Steinbeis and Chelsea Walker.

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

The Secret Life of Plays

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The Secret Life of Plays examines several plays' hidden workings and the trade secrets that govern their writing. Steve Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing to show how plays are more than the sum of their parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism.

The Secret Life of Plays

The Unthinkable

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A tough political play by the acclaimed author of World Music.
The Unthinkable

World Music

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Subtle and topical new play about our complicated attitudes towards the Third World.
World Music