Steve Waters
Steve is seen as one of the best stage writers in the UK today following hits at the Bush, Donmar Warehouse and now under commission to Channel Four Films, Out of Joint, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep. Steve’s plays include: THE CONTINGENCY PLAN (The Bush Theatre, Radio 3) LITTLE PLATOONS (The Bush, Radio 4), FAST LABOUR (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Hampstead Theatre) and WORLD MUSIC (Sheffield Crucible and Donmar Warehouse); with Menagerie his work includes OUT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE.
He also writes for The Guardian, lectures in Creative Writing at UEA and has written THE SECRET LIFE OF PLAYS.
Steve’s Hotbed play DEATH OF A CYCLIST is a poignant, bleakly comic piece imagining the moments after death as a woman struggles to come to terms with the biggest shock of all.
Interview with Steve
What was the inspiration behind your play?
I am an avid cyclist and have come off a few times and constantly reflect on the fragility of life as a consequence; and writing it was a way of confronting that fear.
What is your greatest ambition?
Oh dear – to keep writing well and write better; to fail again, fail better as Beckett has it!
Who is your favourite writer(s)?
Too many to name – right now, Deborah Eisenberg, Caryl Churchill, Geoffrey Hill, Georg Buchner.
When was the last time you laughed out loud and why?
At ‘Rev’ last week – it’s very funny indeed.
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