The Contingency Plan is the overall title of a pair of plays by the British playwright Steve Waters

Steve Waters

Steve Waters is a British playwright. His work includes World Music and The Contingency Plan . He will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James...

. It premiered from 22 April to 6 June 2009 at the Bush Theatre

Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...

, with a cast including Geoffrey Streatfeild. It consists of On the Beach, dealing with the relationship between a father-and-son pair of climate scientists, and Resilience, in which the son from the first play takes up a post in a new Tory government. Both are set in a future United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in which global warming

Global warming

Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

is about to cause massive flooding.

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