Last King of Scotland
‘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.
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.