Temple
by Steve Waters

Temple Book Cover
Temple Cover

Synopsis

On 15 October 2011 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 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 in a production starring Simon Russell Beale, directed by Howard Davies.

'A triumph... [Goes] behind the head-lines, and closed ecclesiastical doors, to produce a riveting drama that unpicks the institutional and psychological turmoil the [Occupy London] saga caused' - Daily Telegraph

'Waters takes real figures and real events and transforms them into a fictional account that plays like High Noon... 90 minutes of barbed politesse that never lets up... rich and ambiguous and funny and fundamental... quietly stunning... a marvellous show' - The Times

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 8 total roles, 3 female and 5 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2015
ISBN 10
1848424752
ISBN 13
9781848424753
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
96 pages
Language
English
LCC
PR6123.A84
eISBN 13
9781780016269
Print
Temple is a British religious play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in 2015. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781848424753 and an ISBN-10 of 1848424752.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books with an ISBN-13 of 9781780016269.

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