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English
Journeys
by Steve Waters
Kathy’s
trying to escape, Peter’s lost and Jo’s on the
run.
Trapped in cars, three people’s lives converge.
Moving between the past and the present, ENGLISH JOURNEYS
questions the emotional decisions that at every turn shape
our lives.
WHen.
in association with Martin Sutherland and James Seabright
and supported by The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust
Pleasance Courtyard (Cavern), Edinburgh Festival Fringe
30th July - 25th August 2003
The
Cast
Julia Stubbs - Kathy
Graham Elwell - Peter
Melissa D'Arcy - Jo
The
Creative Team
Ben
Treacher - Director
Jens Demant Cole - Designer
Stuart Brindle - Lighting Designer
Quinn Gardener - Sound Designer
James Seabright and Martin Sutherland -
General Managers
Steve
Waters - Playwright
Lives in Cambridge and first started writing for the theatre
while reading English at Oxford in the Eighties; was a teacher
for much of the Nineties, including Head of Performing Arts
at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, and is currently
Lecturer in Drama in the Education Faculty of Cambridge University.
In 1992-3, he attended David Edgar’s Birmingham MA Playwrighting
Course, where his first full length play UTOPIANS was directed
by Terry Johnson. In 1996, he received a grant from the Arts
Council of England as a “writer of particular promise”.
His play ENGLISH JOURNEYS was produced at the Hampstead Theatre
as part of their first New Directions Season; followed by
AFTER THE GODS (also published by Faber & Faber). Other
plays include THE GEOGRAPHY LESSON (2000), a monologue; LONDON
BRIDGE (2000) for Paines Plough; THE DIAGNOSIS (2000), a one-act
play for the NT Education Dept/Y Touring Science on Stage
project; FLINT PEOPLE (2000) for the Tie Break Theatre Co;
HABITATS (2000/02), a translation/adaptation of a new play
by Philippe Minyana for the NT Studio Channels Season, read
early 2002 in the Lyttelton Theatre as part of the Transformation
Season, and was premiered at the Gate Theatre London in December
2002. Steve recently completed THE CULL (for Menagerie Theatre);
his play WORLD MUSIC, was produced in Michael Grandage’s
new play season in Sheffield in 2003 and will transfer to
the Donmar Warehouse in London in spring 2004.
'Steve
Waters' play might have been an Alan Ayckbourn a generation
ago, but what's added to the formula speaks eloquently of
new discontents, where middle class ennui and self destructiveness
have a definable, ideological and historical source.'
The List
'Steve
Waters has written a beautiful elegy about an English marriage
told through a series of car journeys.'
The Stage
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