Plays by Author - Stephen Poliakoff

The Talk of the City

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

9 Male 5 Female

BBC Broadcasting House, London, in the late 1930s .. With war in Europe looming on the horizon, in light entertainment radio there is the bizarre spectacle of costumed singers and dancers performing live i...

$17.99 , $8.99 (50% off)

Poliakoff Plays 1 - Clever Soldiers Hitting Town & City Sugar & Shout Across the River & American Days & Strawberry Fields

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks the mythology of Oxbridge against the background of war Hitting Town, a powerful play about incest is "a riveting piece of theatr...

$27.99

Joe's Palace & Capturing Mary & A Real Summer - Three TelePlays

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

In Joe's Palace Poliakoff explores the relationship between a reclusive billionaire and the teenage boy he employs to take care of a grand house A contemporary teleplay about loneliness and loss Capturing...

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Sweet Panic

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

In Sweet Panic, a child psychologist's understanding of contemporary life is brought into question when she finds herself being stalked by the mother of one of her young clients Casting an acute eye over t...

$15.99

City Sugar

Stephen Poliakoff

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 3 Female

Leonard, a disk jockey, is increasingly disillusioned with the falsity of his job of provding fantasies for his devoted teenage listeners. So frustrated is he that he tries to force Nicola, a contestant in a...

$12.99

The Lost Prince

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

Following the life and times of Prince John, the forgotten youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, this dramatization reveals how, diagnosed as epileptic and suffering from learning difficulties H...

$27.99

Breaking the Silence

Stephen Poliakoff

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 2 Female

Set in Russia shortly after the Revolution, Stephen Poliakoff's intriguing and moving play has an autobiographical background in that it is inspired by what happened to his own family in Russia Produced fir...

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Blinded by the Sun

Stephen Poliakoff

Samuel French Ltd

When the retiring professor in a Chemistry department of a northern university chooses Al, a mediocre scientist but a brilliant administrator, to succeed him as head of the department, he sets in motion a ch...

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Poliakoff Plays 3 - Caught on a Train & Coming in to Land & Close My Eyes

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

A new collection of Stephen Poliakoff's plays and screenplays ... Includes the screenplays Caught on a Train (winner of BAFTA award Best Single Play, 1980), Close My Eyes (winner of the Evening Standard Bes...

$27.99

Poliakoff Plays 2 - Breaking the Silence & Playing with Trains & She's Been Away & Century

Stephen Poliakoff

Methuen

Breaking the Silence: "How well Poliakoff understands the indignities and absurdities of dispossession, the brazen pluck and ruthless cunning you need to survive it; and the bewilderment of the young who onl...

$28.99