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STEVE KING
(1976 - )Nationality: Scottish
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Steve King previously served on the National Theatre's Script Panel, freelanced as a reader for Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and Carlton TV's the PLaY's the THING and was a producer for a number of shows including the Fringe First winning 100 (Smirnoff Underbelly, 2002).
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Book Of Man, The Emperor And the Postman, The Incident Mortalled Titanic Orchestra, The Well-Made Life, The Yellow LinesBook Of Man, The
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Part of Miniaturists 30 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today. written by Declan Feenan And Steve King
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Top of PageEmperor And the Postman, The
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Written And directed by Steve King. Shortlisted for the Arches Award (2003)
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Top of PageIncident
When an engineering executive's boyfriend is killed in a car crash, she refuses to accept his death as an accident and compromises her job to find out the truth.
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a significantly revised version was staged At the Cochrane theatre, London, in September, 2004
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Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow 08 Mar 2002
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Strathclyde Theatre Group
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http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0294
Top of PageMortalled
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Mike wakes on easter Sunday to a hangover and the taste of bad mints. Last night is a savage blur of strange words and a girl. and with a knock on the door - its not the Jehovahs Witnesses - his past is about to come flooding back. Dark and funny, Mortalled is a play about faith, hope and whats worth living for when life stops making sense.
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Top of PageTitanic Orchestra, The
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Four tramps huddle together on a derelict railway platform, fighting, necking vodka and scheming, without a hope in hell, to leap aboard the next train that hurtles through. But the trains never stop. a stranger is hurled from a carriage and into their midst. He claims hes the great Houdini and promises that, together, they can pull off the most incredible escape act the world has ever seen.
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from work by Hristo Boytchev
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adaptation
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Top of PageWell-Made Life, The
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about a creative writing lecturer who tries, and fails, to live by the rules of Dramaturgy.
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Part of Miniaturists 23 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today
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Top of PageYellow Lines
the story of a corporate worker-bee, Colin, who specialises in "crowd-flow dynamics" and develops a street-management system that manipulates public behaviour in emergency situations.
Brian Logan, Time Out, London
Brian Logan, Time Out, London
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Oval House Theatre, London, Eur >>> 29 May 2007
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Human Resources
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http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVII (2007) Page 0638
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