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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Steve WatersPublisher: Nick Hern Books Imprint: Nick Hern Books Edition: 2009 edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.220kg ISBN: 9781848420526ISBN 10: 1848420528 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 16 April 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9781848429628 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviews'An urgent wake-up call... for sheer emotional intensity, has no rival on the London stage... Waters' massive achievement is to have made the most important issue of our times into engrossing theatre' * Guardian * 'A triumph' * Evening Standard * 'Thrilling... masterly... a stunning theatrical knock-out' * Daily Telegraph * 'The first and best British play on climate change' * Time Out * Perceptive, bruising theatre. London Metro on World Music I believe it is a question of when not if: it will be worse, far worse. A perfect storm, say... The Contingency Plan Author InformationSteve Waters is a playwright whose plays include: The Last King of Scotland, adapted from the novel by Giles Foden (Sheffield Theatres, 2019); Limehouse (Donmar Warehouse, 2017); Temple (Donmar Warehouse, 2015); Why Can't We Live Together? (Menagerie Theatre/Soho/Theatre503, 2013); Europa, as co-author (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Dresden State Theatre/Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz/Zagreb Youth Theatre, 2013); Ignorance/Jahiliyyah (Hampstead Downstairs, 2012); Little Platoons (Bush Theatre, 2011); The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre, 2009; revived in a new version at Sheffield Theatres, 2022); Fast Labour (Hampstead, in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2008); Out of Your Knowledge (Menagerie Theatre/ Pleasance, Edinburgh/East Anglian tour, 2006-8); World Music (Sheffield Crucible, 2003, and subsequent transfer to the Donmar Warehouse, 2004); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible, 2004); After the Gods (Hampstead Theatre, 2002); and English Journeys (Hampstead Theatre, 1998). His writing for television and radio includes Safe House (BBC4), The Air Gap, The Moderniser (BBC Radio 4), Scribblers and Bretton Woods (BBC Radio 3). He ran the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University between 2006 and 2011, and is now Professor of Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia, where he convenes the MA in Creative Writing: Scriptwriting programme. He is the author of The Secret Life of Plays, published by Nick Hern Books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |