The Contingency Plan is the overall title of a pair of plays by the British playwright Steve Waters. It premiered from 22 April to 6 June 2009 at the Bush Theatre, 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 in which global warming is about to cause massive flooding.