Out of Your Knowledge (NHB Modern Plays)
By Steve Waters
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This play is taken from Steve Waters: Shorts, 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.
Steve Waters
Steve Waters’ plays include Limehouse (Donmar Warehouse; Temple (Donmar Warehouse); Why Can’t We Live Together? (Menagerie Theatre/Soho/Theatre503); Europa, as co-author (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Dresden State Theatre/Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz/Zagreb Youth Theatre); Ignorance/Jahiliyyah (Hampstead Downstairs); Little Platoons, The Contingency Plan, Capernaum (part of Sixty-Six Books; Bush, London); Fast Labour (Hampstead, in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse); Out of Your Knowledge (Menagerie Theatre/Pleasance, Edinburgh/East Anglian tour); World Music (Sheffield Crucible, and subsequent transfer to the Donmar Warehouse); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible); English Journeys, After the Gods (Hampstead); a translation/adaptation of a new play by Philippe Minyana, Habitats (Gate, London/ Tron, Glasgow); Flight Without End (LAMDA). Writing for television and radio includes Safe House (BBC4), The Air Gap, The Moderniser (BBC Radio 4), Scribblers and Bretton Woods (BBC Radio 3). Steve ran the Birmingham MPhil in Playwriting between 2006 and 2011 and now runs the MA Creative Writing: Script at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Secret Life of Plays, also published by Nick Hern Books.
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Out of Your Knowledge (NHB Modern Plays) - Steve Waters
Steve Waters
OUT OF YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
artNICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Title Page
Introduction
Original Production
A Note on the Text
Out of Your Knowledge
About the Author
Copyright and Performing Rights Information
Introduction
Steve Waters
I have lived two lives as a playwright; on the one hand writing for theatres in cities designed to stage new work for audiences that like new work and in front of critics who (sometimes) like new work. Then alongside this I have written the plays collected here; written from within a region, often playing in non-theatrical spaces, often made in collaboration with other artists, often under the radar of critical view and the noise that accompanies new plays. I am proud of both ways of working, but I am also aware that the work collected here is closest to me in some respects – it comes out of my most immediate concerns, it speaks to my wish to change where I am and speak to where I live; it’s more obviously poetic, less considered, still topical but often franker, less artful even.
Interestingly enough, much of this work was never commissioned and some of it I even directed myself. Out of Your Knowledge (2006) and In a Vulnerable Place (2014) were both initially produced by me, thanks to funding from the Arts Council’s Grants for the Arts scheme. The first version of the former, Clare’s Walk, arose out of a walk I undertook with my friend, the performer Patrick Morris, along the route that the poet John Clare took when fleeing from an asylum in Epping Forest and returning to his home near Peterborough. Morris and I walked it in six crazy hot days in summer 2005, and then toured the show along the route – in theatres, yes, but also nature reserves, community halls, churches.
In a Vulnerable Place was my attempt to think again about climate change six years on from my play The Contingency Plan – by talking to people in the Norfolk Broads and