About Steve

Plays

Adaptations

Publications

The Playpen

The Cut Shakespeare

Playwright Steve Gooch is the writer and translator of over 40 produced scripts. Female Transport is still popular after 50 years and 500 productions around the world, while a revival of his Writers’ Guild prize-winning monologue McNaughton drew 4-stars at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival.

Female Transport

Its dialogue is the open verse of human poetry

Stu Feiler, News/Voice, Chicago

Good For You

Savagely knowing about how men and women relate

Robin Thornber, The Guardian

Dark Glory

A theatre of psychological truth and sharp insight

Simon Reade, Plays International

Asking Rembrandt

Worthy of Bernard Shaw at his best

Tim Hochstrasse, British Theatre

His recently published collections of stage plays, Women’s Worlds, Love Bites and Artistic Licence are now available direct from the author at half-price.

Artistic Licence

Love Bites

Women’s Worlds

His career as a dramatist also includes screenplays and adaptations including Brecht’s The Mother (Methuen), for which he won a Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award in 2014. Meanwhile worldwide work as a teacher and literary manager has led to four editions of Writing a Play, his script doctor consultancy The Playpen, and his much-loved series The Cut Shakespeare, complete playtexts with suggested editing indicated for reading and performance.

For more about Steve and his plays and translations with reviews, summaries and excerpts, follow the links above or contact Steve directly.

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