Stephens Writes Dramas Set In Uncaring, Uncompromising Worlds, Whose Characters Speak In A Language At Once Naturalistic And Yet Artificially Pared-down 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 Britain''s Most Prolific Contemporary Playwrights, Simon Stephens, Charting His Work From 2011-2016, Ranging From London''s Royal Court Theatre, Manchester''s Royal Exchange And Broadway. Wastwater (2011) Metaphoric, Allusive, And Thoroughly Disturbing In Its Evocation Of Suspicion And Uncertainty, Wastwater Is A Thought-provoking 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) Mega-fame And Limitless Cash Can Turn A Man Into A Monster, And Simon Stephens''s New Play Excellently Evokes Its Hero''s Spiritually Shrunken World (michael Billington, Guardian) Blindsided (2014) The Dialogue Has A Rare Quality Of Moment-by-moment Intensity (telegraph)song From Far Away (2015) A Meditative Monologue A Searching Study Of Impotently Self-aware Emotional Insufficiency (independent) Heisenberg (2016) Mr.