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Steven Hevey

STEVEN HEVEY

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Rochelle Stevens & Co   

Playwright Steven Hevey is a Playwright on Attachment at the Finborough Theatre where his new play We Know Where You Live recently received its world premiere. He is the winner of OffWestEnds Adopt a Playwright Award 2014 and of several Peggy Ramsay Foundation Awards. He has worked extensively with Old Vic New Voices and Paines Plough and is a graduate of the Royal Court and Soho Theatre Young Writers Programmes. His plays include Sirius (The Old Vic), King For A Day (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Short Plays by Steven Hevey (Soho Theatre), Pay As You Go (Cock Tavern Theatre) and In My Name (Old Red Lion Theatre and Trafalgar Studios). Stevens short plays have been performed at Shakespeares Globe, Ovalhouse, Hampstead Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Bush Theatre, Old Vic Tunnels, Vineyard Theatre, New York City, and the Lyric Studio Hammersmith.

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         Apophis         Education, An         In My Name         King for The Day         P45         Pay As You Go         Sirius         We Know Where You Live         Wish You Were Here

Apophis

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When a close group of friends gather to observe Venus begin her transit across the face of the sun, little did they expect they would ever come face to face with a very different type of Venus ? a fast talking, hard drinking working-class Mum. From a world very different to their own, and with the clouds conspiring to block their view, they struggle to connect not only with each other, but themselves. Yet when an unexpected bomb of a guest arrives, it's not long before they soon do ? only not in the way they had planned. A play about life, love, the universe and everything that's in it (well almost), and how no matter how many times you mess up in life, you always get a second chance. Don't you?

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Education, An

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A writer's response to Owen Jones' Chavs: The Demonization of The Working Class [In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality. Based on a wealth of original research, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain. This updated edition includes a new chapter exploring the causes and consequences of the UK riots in the summer of 2010.]. Six of the UK's most talented, bold young playwrights respond to the issues raised in Owen Jones' influential study of class stigma within modern Britain. These short plays debate the connotations of this stereotype, the current state of our nation and perhaps more significantly how we got here. With last summer's riots and the proposed new welfare reforms, there has never been a more pertinent time to discuss these issues.

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part of Chavs - Last Man on The Heygate/Schnapps/Somewhere between a News Clipping and the Gossip Pages/An Education/The Royal Borough

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In My Name

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examines the implications of a 'just' war being fought by a generation with few clear morals, little sense of nation and an even lesser sense of self.
- Tamara Gausi, Time Out London

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King for The Day

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P45

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Armed with a new job, new suit, and new girlfriend, Paul finally feels strong enough to see his daughter Emily. Having not seen her for the past few years following a difficult divorce from her mother, Paul is keen to make up for lost time. But, as the weekend unfolds, the pressures of his new life with his new girlfriend, Amy, soon prove difficult to balance, and he is made to question whether he's cut out for fatherhood at all.

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Now in its seventh consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - the coalface of British Theatre - presents its annual explosion of new writing - Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, running on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday and Thursday matinees between 25 October-12 November 2015. This year's festival features an eclectic and idiosyncratic selection of twelve staged readings of twelve new works by a dozen UK and international playwrights, both established and new, all discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre. Concentrated solely on full length works for the stage, this year's Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights includes playwrights from England, Scotland, Wales, the United States and New Zealand. As always we strive to be as diverse as possible, and this year's festival once again features 50% female playwrights, together with work from African-American, East Asian, British-Lebanese, British-Israeli and Maori playwrights.

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Pay As You Go

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Mark is the manager of a mobile phone retailer. every day he discusses talk time plans, unlimited texts, and free minutes with whomever walks through the door, without giving a thought to what it is he is actually doing. His job is not to question customers' motivation, his priority is to sell the public what they want; but with the arrival of Emma, the new work experience girl, Mar is reminded just how important those minutes are. Time is running out. Pay as You Go is a bold, epic tale of one man's desperate attempt to find renewed meaning in his life. the clock is ticking and every minute counts.

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Sirius

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We Know Where You Live

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Having traipsed from one borough to the next, young professionals Ben and Asma have finally come across a part of London they can call their home. With its lively character and village feel, it isn't long before this back water town soon becomes the prime destination for every other young professional in the city. Triggering a brutal wave of gentrification, the many charms that had attracted Ben and Asma to the area slowly start to disappear. As they reach out to the resident community for support in protecting not only the surrounding history but their very home, the local wildlife have other ideas about what they think should be done to protect it.

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Wish You Were Here

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asked very interesting questions about how young people connect today when so much of communication is performed virtually, and how we react when someone has a 'three dimensional' problem
- Sacha Voit , British theatre Guide

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part of there is Nothing there (scheduled 7.45pm) presented A different showcase of young people's ideas. In A two hour performance (without interval) four plays were woven together 'about finding your way in A mad world. . . It's All part of growing up, isn't it?'. In this mad world five friends find themselves involved in A protest march with dire consequences, three goth friends find one of their group is going out with A vampire who's Also the school geek, three drug Abusing girls dream Away their life outside A factory lot And finally two old friends find that connection is much more than Facebook posts And text messages.

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