A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism.Almost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, W...

"Parenting the Strong-Willed Child: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Independence" authored by Steve Waters is an invaluable resource for parents navigating the complexities of raising a strong-willed child. With its insightful guidance and practical strategies, this book empowers parents to embrace and nurture their child's independence while fostering a loving and supportive family dynamic.Waters' expertise as a child psychologist and family therapi...

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.In On the Beach, Will Paxton, a glaciologist, returns from months in Antarctica to tell his parents that he will take up a role within Government. Thirty years ago, his father silenced his own radical thinking on climate change. Yet behind the reunion with his father lies thirty years of secre...

Five short plays from acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, all of them deeply personal accounts of his attempts to make sense of twenty-first-century Britain and an ever-changing world.From the migrant crisis in Europe to climate change and the increasing urbanisation of our green spaces, Waters turns his sensitive, thoughtful eye to the complex and challenging issues that face us today, moving from the personal to the political, and from the local to the global.O...

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. In On the Beach, glaciologist Will has followed in his father's footsteps, dedicating himself to studying climate change. Back from Antarctica, he visits his parents on the Norfolk coast. With catastrophic flooding growing more likely by the day, he has news that forces long-submerged secrets to rise to the surface. In Resilience, Will, freshly app...

A short play from the acclaimed author of Limehouse and Temple.The Play About Calais, based on Steve Waters' own visit to the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais and the people he met along the way, is an attempt to make sense of one of the most complex and divisive issues of our times.It was first staged at Hotbed Festival in 2016, then at Norwich Arts Centre in 2017.

A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape as acclaimed playwright Steve Waters retraces the journey of John Clare, the nineteenth-century English poet who escaped his lunatic asylum in Essex and walked for over a hundred miles to reach his home village.

A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour Party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale. This is Britain 1981.One Sunday morning, four prominent Labour politicians – Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen – gather in private at Owen's home in Limehouse, East London. They are desperate to find a political alternative. Should they split their party, divide their loyalties, and risk betraying ever...

A short play from the acclaimed author of Limehouse and Temple.Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Steve Waters' play Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.

A short play from the acclaimed author of Limehouse and Temple.In a Vulnerable Place is a monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.It was first staged at Norwich Arts Centre in 2014, and then as part of RADAR at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2015.

On 15 October 2011, protest movement Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. On 21 October 2011, a building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors. On 28 October, City of London initiates legal action against Occupy to begin removing them from outside the Cathedral...Steve Waters' play Temple is a fictional account of these events, set in the heart of a very British crisis – a crisis of conscience, a crisis of auth...

Told by a woman killed in a cycling accident, Steve Waters' play Death of a Cyclist is a poignant, bleakly comic short monologue that imagines the moments after death, and our struggle to come to terms with the biggest shock of all.It was first staged by Menagerie Theatre Company at Hotbed Festival in 2012.