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Temple
Steve Waters
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Description for Temple
Paperback. A fictional account of the events of the 2011 Occupy London protests, which led to the closure of St Paul's Cathedral. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 96.
On 15 October 2011, protest movement Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. On 21 October 2011, a building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors. On 28 October, City of London initiates legal action against Occupy to begin removing them from outside the Cathedral...
Steve Waters' play Temple is a fictional account of these events, set in the heart of a very British crisis – a crisis of conscience, a crisis of authority and a crisis of faith.
Temple was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2015 ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424753
SKU
V9781848424753
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Ref
99-50
About Steve Waters
Steve Waters is a playwright whose plays include 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/ ... Read more
Reviews for Temple
'Asks big questions about the role of the church in the modern world... Waters’ virtue is that he allows the audience the freedom to decide where it stands...the play leaves you debating the issues it so cogently raises'
Guardian
'A triumph... [Goes] behind the head-lines, and closed ecclesiastical doors, to produce a riveting drama that unpicks the institutional ... Read more
Guardian
'A triumph... [Goes] behind the head-lines, and closed ecclesiastical doors, to produce a riveting drama that unpicks the institutional ... Read more