STEPHEN POLIAKOFF   (1952 - )


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Plays by Stephen Poliakoff

STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
American Days
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1979
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
Three aspiring pop stars confront almighty record company boss in the plush headquarters.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Bambi Ramm
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Berlin Days
1st Produced:
Little Theatre, London
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Blinded By The Sun
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Scientific research is motivated by fame and greed.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Breaking The Silence
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
1984
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Stephen Poliakoff's intriguing and moving play is inspired by his own family's experience in Russia. Father spends his time (and government money) in trying to record sound on to film. With the death of Lenin, however, the research must be abandoned and the family is forced to flee. The play follows the material and spiritual adjustments the upper-middle-class Pesiakoff family have to make when forced to live for years in a railway carriage.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Capturing Mary
1st Produced:
BBC
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
3 singers
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Poliakoff takes his characters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past and its power to capture and destroy a persons life. Dame Maggie Smith plays the lead role
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Carnation Gang, The
1st Produced:
1974
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Caught On A Train
1st Produced:
BBC
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
14
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Century
1st Produced:
BBC
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
1994
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
City Sugar
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1976
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
companion piece to Hitting Town. in Poliakoff Plays: 1, Methuen Drama, London >>>
Synopsis:
A commercial station's disk jockey uses air time to expound his own satirical view of technological mass culture.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Clever Soldiers
1st Produced:
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
-
Historical
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Officer class of the first world war portrayed in 1914 Oxford.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Close My Eyes
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
9
Female
10
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Coming In To Land
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
1986
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
The links between the political worlds of the east and west and problems with cultural duality
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Day With My Sister, A
1st Produced:
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Favourite Nights
1st Produced:
Lyric Th London
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
London's West End with a surreal landscape of gambling casinos with piped musak and seedy language schools
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Granny
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Heroes
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Hidden City
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Hitting Town
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1976
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Genre:
Seven scenes
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
companion piece to City Sugar. in Poliakoff Plays: 1, Methuen Drama, London >>>
Synopsis:
An incestuous relationship between dropout student and his sister develops against a background of urban decay.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Joe's Palace
1st Produced:
BBC
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
Screenplay
-
Parts:
Male
11
Female
9
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
explores the relationship between a reclusive billionaire (played by Michael Gambon), and the teenage boy he employs to take care of a grand house. This is a lavishly shot contemporary film about loneliness and loss.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Lay By
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays & Players" Nov
1971
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written by Brenton, Clark, Griffiths, Hare, Poliakoff, Stoddart, Wilson
Synopsis:
Fellatio as rape gets perpetrator ten years and pregnant heroin addict victim committed to Holloway. Denouement as main characters are washed in blood and made into jam.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Playing With Trains
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at The Warehouse, London London
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
An attack on British inertia by an entrepreneur causes friction with his children
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Pretty Boy
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Real Summer, A
1st Produced:
BBC
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
played by 1 actor
Notes:
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Synopsis:
charting the development of an unexpected friendship between a young aristocratic woman and Mary before she enters the dangerous world of Mr Graham's house
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Remember This
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
1999
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In 'Remember This', the author looks at the role that technology plays in all our lives. The video camera becomes an interruption in the daily existence of Rick and Victoria as the couple prepare for their wedding, and begins to take over their lives.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Sad Beat Up
1st Produced:
Little Theatre, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
She's Been Away
1st Produced:
BBC
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
T.V. Play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Shooting The Past
1st Produced:
BBC
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
A series of three-hour-long linked plays for BBC2 plus two shorter plays
Synopsis:
Oswald and Marilyn, played by Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan, are the custodians of the collection of 10 million black and white photographs housed in a beautiful period building on the edge of London. Their peaceful old fashioned existence is threatened when some Americans buy the property to turn it into a business school. They have to use their resources and ingenuity to fight the forces of the modern world and as they do so their battle uncovers a mystery from the past, hidden away amongst the photos which has a dramatic effect on the lives of all those involved.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Shout Across The River
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1979
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Synopsis:
Claustrophobic mother conflicts with her vicious teenage delinquent daughter
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Sienna Red
1st Produced:
Richmond, Surrey
1992
Company:
Peter Hall Company, London
1st Published:
1992
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Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A charming but domineering man has unlikely love affair with gentile woman.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Strawberry Fields
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1977
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
Three members of the sixties generation decide to journey the length of the country only to find violence and paranoia
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF
Summer Party, The
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1980
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