Celebrating 50 years of Creative Writing at UEA, in partnership with the European Association of Creative Writing (EACWP) This online conference in May 2021 considered the future of Creative Writing in universities and the importance of literature and drama in helping us navigate challenging moments in history. In this keynote lecture, author of Into The Woods, […]
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Murmurations by Steve Waters
Murmurations is a new play by UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters and physical theatre company Tangled Feet. The production is hosted outdoors from 17-19 September at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen and 24-26 at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. Performances run at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm each day. Steve has written many plays for the stage, including Limehouse and Temple (both […]
A Life in 16 Films
The preface from A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made A Playwright by Steve Waters I defied the injunctions for one day only. I had a feeling that the experience of going to the cinema was about to vanish as the pandemic advanced. Poorly cleaned cinemas with recycled air seemed perfectly designed for […]
A Life in 16 Films by Steve Waters
A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made a Playwright is the second book by UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters and has just been published by Methuen Drama. His previous book The Secret Life of Plays was published by Nick Hern Books in 2010. Steve has written many plays for the stage, including Limehouse and Temple (both for the […]
Song of the Reed by Steve Waters
Song of the Reed is a new four-part radio play by UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters and has just been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Recorded on location at the RSPB’s Strumpshaw Fen and starring Mark Rylance and Sophie Okonedo, it will be available via the BBC iPlayer for the next twelve months. Steve has […]
New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting
Our New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting is taking place online, hosted by UEA. Join us live on the afternoon of Saturday 14 November for an online discussion responding to two pre-recorded panels: • ‘New Perspectives on Nature Writing’, featuring Jessica J. Lee, Mona Arshi and Jean McNeil • ‘States of Emergency’, featuring James Thornton, […]
Steve Waters and Lindsay Sharman shortlisted for British Podcast Awards
UEA Professor of Scriptwriting and current MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) student Lindsay Sharman have been shortlisted in the Best Fiction category of the British Podcast Awards. Steve (pictured) is nominated for his nine-part series ‘Fall of the Shah’, first broadcast earlier this year on the BBC World Service, while Lindsay is shortlisted for her mystery-thriller, Mockery […]
Miriam and Youssef by Steve Waters
Miriam and Youssef is a new ten-part radio drama about the founding of Israel by UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters. It will be broadcast on the BBC World Service from Wednesday 29 April. Steve has written many plays for the stage, including Limehouse and Temple (both for the Donmar Warehouse, London), Little Platoons and The Contingency Plan (both at the Bush Theatre, […]
The Plot Against Drama: Dramaturgy In The Age Of Netflix
In this very personal lecture, delivered in January 2020, leading playwright and UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters asks what exactly is happening to drama in a world of on-demand storytelling. In an age of stories as franchises, narratives without limit and globalised reach, what happens to tragedy or dramatic intensity? Does too much drama defeat […]
Steve Waters’s adaptation of The Last King Of Scotland
UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters has adapted for the stage the novel The Last King of Scotland by fellow UEA Professor, novelist Giles Foden. The novel won the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award and was released as an Oscar-winning film in 2006. Steve’s stage adaptation has its world premiere at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre […]
