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STEVE WATERS (1965 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Micheline Steinberg Associates |
Steve Waters lives in Cambridge and first started writing for the theatre while reading English at Oxford in the Eighties; was a teacher for much of the Nineties, including Head of Performing Arts at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, and is currently Lecturer in Drama in the Education Faculty of Cambridge University. In 1992-3, he attended David Edgar's Birmingham MA Playwrighting Course, where his first full length play UTOPIANS was directed by Terry Johnson. In 1996, he received a grant from the Arts Council of England as a writer of particular promise . His play ENGLISH JOURNEYS was produced at the Hampstead Theatre as part of their first New Directions Season; followed by AFTER THE GODS (also published by Faber & Faber). Other plays include THE GEOGRAPHY LESSON (2000), a monologue; LONDON BRIDGE (2000) for Paines Plough; THE DIAGNOSIS (2000), a one-act play for the NT Education Dept/Y Touring Science on Stage project; FLINT PEOPLE (2000) for the Tie Break Theatre Co; HABITATS (2002), a translation/adaptation of a new play by Philippe Minyana for the NT Studio Channels Season, read early 2002 in the Lyttelton Theatre as part of the Transformation Season, and was premiered at the Gate Theatre London in December 2002. Steve recently completed THE CULL (for Menagerie Theatre); his play WORLD MUSIC, was produced in Michael Grandage's new play season in Sheffield in 2003 and will transfer to the Donmar Warehouse in London in spring 2004. He currently runs the MPhil(B) in Playwriting at University of Birmingham.
Plays by Steve Waters
06/07/05 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 25 Mar 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139311 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 6 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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24 Hour Plays | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Jun 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125051 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | part of 24 Hour Plays by Roy Williams, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Enda Walsh, Steve Waters | |||||
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After The Gods | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Mar 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571215966 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36281 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| If someone died in front of you, would you know what to do? How long would you discuss your plans before you did something? Two minutes? Ten minutes? Twelve hours? In this darkly funny play the intellectual rivalries in a small university town take on epic proportions. Where are the police? Where is the body? Why is the clingfilm still on the salads? And is there anything left to say about Shakespeare? Language and sexual identity are at the heart of Steve Waters' erudite and incisive look at academic life, where desire and egomania obscure the true questions of our time. | |||||
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Amphibians | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bridewell Theatre, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ >>> | 04 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Offstage Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123591 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | By Steve Waters, based on an original idea and research by Cressida Brown | |||||
Synopsis: | The emotional struggle that lies beneath the surface, the little intrigues and betrayals, the quest for perfection and the frustrations and disappointments that are the price for every victory are the fabric of this gripping production that effortless joins site-specific theatre, physical performance and psychological reflection. | |||||
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Capernaum | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133228 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of The Gospel According To St Mark | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Clare's Walk | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Jul 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125053 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Come with us on a trip from London to the Fens in search of John Clare - poet, visionary and lunatic. Follow the same journey the celebrated poet made in 1841 when he walked for three days to his home near Peterborough from the Epping Forest asylum where he had been incarcerated. Along the way, a succession of characters help to reveal the hidden landscapes of the A1 corridor and expose the environmental issues that should concern us all. Deepened and illuminated by Clare's own verse and prose, the play offers a thoughtful, topical and engrossing voyage through our own corner of this green and pleasant land. | |||||
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Contingency Plan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978184842052 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94286 | |||
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| A double bill of plays (Resilience and On the Beach) from the frontline of climate change. They both stand alone and are complementary. Together, they present an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in which huge flooding has destroyed Bristol and threatens to sink the east coast. | |||||
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Cull, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Menagerie Theatre | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78118 | |||
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Synopsis: | A thriller in which three very different characters face the meltdown of a British countryside in the grip of Foot and Mouth disease. A tense, moving and darkly comic play. | |||||
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Diagnosis, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | NT Education Dept/Y Touring Science on Stage project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78119 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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English Journeys | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Mar 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36282 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | sets the intimate recollections of a failing couple on the mesmerising open roads of Blair's Britain. Kathy's now driving solo and Peter's attentions are focussed on Joanne, his mysterious 15-year-old travelling companion. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fast Labour | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Apr 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854595744 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83888 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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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. | |||||
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Flight Without End | ||
| 1st Produced: | MacOwan Theatre (LAMDA), London | 16 May 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125052 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | based on a classic novel of 1927 by Joseph Roth | |||||
Synopsis: | 1919. Franz Tunda is making his way home to his fiancee from the Eastern Front, through the whirlwind of the Russian Revolution, Weimar Germany and affluent Paris. En route Tunda meets women - this is a sexual as well as a social odyssey and Tunda's is a quest for love; and his fate foreshadows the tragic death in Paris of Roth himself, in flight for fascism. | |||||
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Flint People | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Tie Break Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78120 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Geography Lesson, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78121 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Habitats | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Dec 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36283 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Philippe Minyana | |||||
Synopsis: | An executive from a packaging company makes a presentation. A 40-year old actress with the mind of a child entertains two men. The hideous story of multiple murderer James Inwood is narrated using statements and testimonies from the infamous trial. Philippe Minyana's unique style and form, using real-life commentary, social issues viewed through the lens of popular poetry, non-dramatic structure and punctuation-free prose, has made him the most famous of French living playwrights. Habitats is his first play to be translated into English | |||||
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Little Platoons | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 Jan 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421516 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117907 | |||
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Genre: | 140 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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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 fervour turns to panic. Free schools are getting ready to transform from policy idea to classroom reality. But what do we know about them? This dark new comedy takes the pulse of Coalition Britain, by exploring what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power might actually mean. Moving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, it asks why we're all so obsessed with education and what happens when we get what we wish for | |||||
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London Bridge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bridewell Theatre, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ >>> | 16 May 2000 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78122 | |||
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On The Beach | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978184842052 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94287 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| part of The Contingency Plan a double bill of plays (Resilience and On the Beach) from the frontline of climate change. They both stand alone and are complementary. Together, they present an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in which huge flooding has destroyed Bristol and threatens to sink the east coast. | |||||
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Out of Your Knowledge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Morwich: Arts Centre | 20 Sep 2007 | ||||
Company: | Menagerie | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88872 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A unique journey inspired by the 19th century poet John Clare's feverish three-day walk from a lunatic asylum in Essex to his home 100 miles away. | |||||
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Resilience | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978184842052 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94288 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| part of The Contingency Plan a double bill of plays (Resilience and On the Beach) from the frontline of climate change. They both stand alone and are complementary. Together, they present an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in which huge flooding has destroyed Bristol and threatens to sink the east coast. | |||||
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Unthinkable, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Oct 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854598264 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41291 | |||
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| The mid-80s. Four bright Oxford students set up a radical group which is comandeered by the Labour Party to become an alternative think-tank. As the years go by, its initially idealistic members start pursuing their own goals. One joins the World Bank, one makes a fortune as an Internet pioneer; one becomes an MP. . . One, always the most uncompromising, goes to helo the Palestinian cause. | |||||
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Utopians | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78117 | |||
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World Music | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 May 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597625 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36284 | |||
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Genre: | Political Play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| The troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into the personal lives and loves of two generations. | |||||
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