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Steve Waters

STEVE WATERS

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Micheline Steinberg Associates  

Steve Waters ran the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University for several years; he now teaches Creative Writing at the University of East AngliA. He is also an acclaimed playwright whose plays have been staged at the Donmar Warehouse, the Sheffield Crucible, Hampstead Theatre and the Bush Theatre.

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         06/07/05         24 Hour Plays         After the Gods         Amphibians         Capernaum         Clare's Walk         Contingency Plan, The         Cull, The         Death Of A Cyclist         Diagnosis, The         English Journeys         Europa         Fast Labour         Flight Without End         Flint People         Geography Lesson, The         Habitats         Ignorance / Jahiliyyah         Little Platoons         London Bridge         On the Beach         Out of Your Knowledge         Resilience         Temple         Unthinkable, The         Utopians         Why Can't We Live Together?         World Music
06/07/05

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Part of Miniaturists 6 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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24 Hour Plays

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part of 24 Hour Plays by Roy Williams, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Enda Walsh, Steve Waters

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After the Gods

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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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Hampstead Theatre, London >>>     18 Mar 2000

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Amphibians

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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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By Steve Waters, based on An original idea And research by Cressida Brown

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Capernaum

Capernaum
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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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

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Clare's Walk

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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

Contingency Plan, The
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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Bush Theatre, London, Eur >>>     22 Apr 2009

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Cull, The

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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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Menagerie Theatre     2000

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Death Of A Cyclist

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The Miniaturists is the regular curated writer-led event dedicated to bringing you short, exhilarating, perfectly formed plays. Each show is packed with work from an exciting array of new and established playwrights all of whom see the short play as a form in itself rather than a means to an end.

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Diagnosis, The

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English Journeys

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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.

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Europa

Europa
Join characters from across Europe as they struggle to make sense of their ever-changing countries. From a confused Arts funding panel in Brussels to a young couple suspected of being terrorists, a multi-cultural mix of 21st Century issues are explored in this satiric and savagely comic snapshot of European life. Post 9/11 paranoia, neo-fascism and a crumbling currency entwine in this exciting new production - the result of a unique collaboration between theatres in the UK, Germany, Poland and Croatia. the differing viewpoints and four languages have combined to create a must-see explosive exploration of a continent in crisis. This edition features both the multi-lingual and the English text, and has an introduction by the dramaturg behind the project, Caroline Jester.

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written by Lutz Hubner, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Tena Stivicic and Steve Waters

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Zekaem(Zkm), Zagreb, Croatia     01 Apr 2013

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz, Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Zagreb Youth Theatre

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Fast Labour

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. 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

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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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based on A classic novel of 1927 by Joseph Roth

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Macowan Theatre (Lamda), London     16 May 2006

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Flint People

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Geography Lesson, The

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Habitats

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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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Original Playwright - Philippe Minyana

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Ignorance / Jahiliyyah

Ignorance / Jahiliyyah
An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.. 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. . .

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Little Platoons

Little Platoons
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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140 min Play/Drama

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London Bridge

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Paines Plough's introduction to the hottest new writers returns to the Bridewell for a fourth season of lunchtime script-in-hand performances in collaboration with the BBC New Writing Initiative. More direct than the Victoria Line - More fun than the Circle Line - Deeper than westminster - More shocking than a body on the line - More precious than a seat in ruch hour - More of a challenge than the exits at Picadilly Circus - Better value than a two zone travelcard. Jubilee - Plays from Underground, brings you 9 new plays, all inspired by the Jubilee Line Extension and written in only three weeks. From Westminster to stratford, each playwright brings their special talent to bear upon the weird and beautiful poetry of London Transport's latest artery. They will never be just a name on the line to you again!

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part of Wild Lunch 4: Jubilee - Plays from Underground

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On the Beach

On the Beach
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

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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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Morwich: Arts Centre     29/2007

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Menagerie

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Resilience

Resilience
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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Temple

Temple
October 15th 2011 Occupy London set up camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. October 21st the St Paul authorities threaten to close the cathedral

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Unthinkable, The

Unthinkable, The
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

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Why Can't We Live Together?

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Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, this is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman. Short, sharp and brilliantly observed, life flickers in front of us at break-neck speed. You're asking me to be somebody I didn't know I was going to be until you suddenly realised you wanted me to be that person.

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Cambridge Festival Of New Writing     2013

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World Music

World Music
the troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into the personal lives and loves of two generations.

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Political Play Play/Drama

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