"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pareddown and whose uncertain attempts to assert their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal acts of violence." Financial TimesA fifth collection of plays by one of Britains most prolific contemporary playwrights, Simon Stephens, charting his work from 20112016, ranging from Londons Royal Court Theatre, Manchesters Royal Exchange and Broadway. Wastwater (2011) "Metaphoric, allusive, and thoroughly disturbing in its evocation of suspicion and uncertainty, Wastwater is a thoughtprovoking play whose quiet intensity stays with you for days its effect is like that of a ugly stone dropped into a pool, which results in constant ripples of dirty water lapping at your subconscious" (Aleks Sierz)Birdland (2014) "Megafame and limitless cash can turn a man into a monster, and Simon Stephenss new play excellently evokes its heros spiritually shrunken world" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Blindsided (2014) the dialogue has a rare quality of momentbymoment intensity" (Telegraph)Song From Far Away (2015) "a meditative monologue a searching study of impotently selfaware emotional insufficiency" (Independent) Heisenberg (2016) "Mr. Stephens ... is an uncannily subtle dramatist who never wears his depths on the surface ... he probes clichs until they fall apart, before reassembling them into solid but transformed shapes, reminding...

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