Steve Waters

Steve Waters is a British playwright. He was born in Coventry, England. He studied English at Oxford University, taught in secondary schools and was a graduate of David Edgar's MA in Playwriting in 1993, a course which Waters later ran for several years. ^[1] He has written about the pedagogy of playwriting, contributed articles to The Guardian , essays to The Blackwell Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama and The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter, and has written a book entitled The Secret Life of Plays (2010). ^[2]

Plays

• English Journeys (1998) ^[3]
• After The Gods (2002)
• World Music (2003)
• The Unthinkable (2004)
• Fast Labour (2008)
• The Contingency Plan (2009)
• Little Platoons (2011)
• Ignorance/ Jahiliyyah (2012)
• The Air Gap (2012) A radio play broadcast by BBC Radio 4. ^[4]
• Bretton Woods (2014) Broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
• Scribblers (2015) BBC Radio 3
• Temple (2015)
• The Play About Calais (2016)
• Limehouse (2017)
• The Fall of the Shah (2019) ^[5]
• The Last King of Scotland (2019)
• Miriam and Youssef (2020) ^{[6] [7]}

Collaborative works

The Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books used the King James Bible as inspiration for new theatre. ^[8] Waters contributed the short play Capernaum. ^[9] He also adapted and translated Habitats by Philippe Minyana. Waters collaborated with the Menagerie Theatre Company, with Out of Your Knowledge (2005-08) and Offstage Theatre Company, with Amphibians (2011).

References

1. "Steve Waters". Essential Drama. Archived from the original on 26 January 2019.
2. "The Secret Life of Plays". Nick Hern Books . Archived from the original on 15 July 2014.
3. "Steve Waters". www.doollee.com.
4. "BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, The Air Gap". BBC.
5. "BBC - Fall Of The Shah - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk.
6. "My new podcast drama covers Israel's creation — but it's also about Britain". inews.co.uk. 6 May 2020.
7. Frazer, Jenni (29 April 2020). "BBC dramatizes birth of Israeli nation in 'balanced' new 10-part radio play". The Times of Israel.
8. "Bush Theatre". Archived from the original on 4 July 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
9. "People - UEA". University of East Anglia . Archived from the original on 1 March 2014.

Sources

• Theatre review: The Contingency Plan, Bush, London