POLIAKOFF STEPHEN

(P/B) PLAYS 1
The plays in this volume were all written between 1973 and 1979, those grey years when the last residue of sixties optimism was quickly fading and before the harsh divisive upheavals of the Conservative eighties. A period which already seems strangely distant: the years of Heath, Wilson and Callaghan, of Wimpey bars, the Bay City Rollers, punk and the National Front. The plays, to some extent, lasso the atmosphere of that time, but they also look forward to many of the anxieties and desires of the late eighties. In this introduction I disc...
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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 Best British Picture of 1991 and numerous other awards), and the play Coming in to Land"...
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When Breaking the Silence first opened in London in October 1984, a lot of people seemed rather surprised. I had spent much of the previous ten years writing about the urban world, and had become strongly associated with appalling hamburger bars, subterranean discos, early versions of Karaoke, neon and violence. Therefore, a tragi-comic tale set on a train just after the Russian Revolution may have come as a bit of a shock. On New Year's Eve 1993 my film Century opened. A period drama that takes place during the last weeks of the nineteent...
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