The Last King of Scotland: stage version

by Giles Foden, Steve Waters (Adapted by)

Overview

'He is the sickness and you maintain that sickness.'

Idi Amin is the self-declared President of Uganda. When Scottish medic Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician, he is catapulted into Amin's inner circle. A useful asset for the British Secret Service, is Garrigan the man on the inside, or does he have blood on his hands too?

Giles Foden's multi-award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland is an electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity. This stage adaptation by Steve Waters premiered at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in September 2019, directed by Gbolahan Obisesan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788502665
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	10/03/2019
Series:	NHB Modern Plays
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	344 KB

About the Author

Steve Waters' other plays include Limehouse, Temple and World Music for the Donmar Warehouse, Little Platoons and The Contingency Plan (shortlisted for the 2009 John Whiting Award) for the Bush Theatre, and Fast Labour and Ignorance/Jahiliyyah for Hampstead Theatre. He is the author of The Secret Life of Plays, also published by Nick Hern Books.

Giles Foden is an English author whose novels include The Last King of Scotland (published 1998).

Steve Waters is a playwright whose plays include: The Last King of Scotland, adapted from the novel by Giles Foden (Sheffield Theatres, 2019); Limehouse (Donmar Warehouse, 2017); Temple (Donmar Warehouse, 2015); Why Can’t We Live Together? (Menagerie Theatre/Soho/Theatre503, 2013); Europa, as co-author (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Dresden State Theatre/Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz/Zagreb Youth Theatre, 2013); Ignorance/Jahiliyyah (Hampstead Downstairs, 2012); Little Platoons (Bush Theatre, 2011); The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre, 2009; revived in a new version at Sheffield Theatres, 2022); Fast Labour (Hampstead, in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2008); Out of Your Knowledge (Menagerie Theatre/ Pleasance, Edinburgh/East Anglian tour, 2006-8); World Music (Sheffield Crucible, 2003, and subsequent transfer to the Donmar Warehouse, 2004); T he Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible, 2004); After the Gods (Hampstead Theatre, 2002); and  English Journeys (Hampstead Theatre, 1998).

His writing for television and radio includes Safe House (BBC4), The Air Gap, The Moderniser (BBC Radio 4), Scribblers and Bretton Woods (BBC Radio 3).

He ran the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University between 2006 and 2011, and is now Professor of Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia, where he convenes the MA in Creative Writing: Scriptwriting programme. He is the author of The Secret Life of Plays, published by Nick Hern Books.