Plays: Vol 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) - Clever Soldiers - Hitting Town - City Sugar - Shout Across the River - American Days - Strawberry Fields: v.1

by StephenPoliakoff (Author), StephenPoliakoff (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1990

  $25.54

  Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) 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 theatre...a stupendous achievement (Sunday Telegraph); City Sugar: A savage dissection of that pristine slagheap of Our Times - mass culture (Time Out); Shout Across the River: traces the progress of a passionate and extraordinary relationship between a young mother and her teenage daughter played against the background of a vast suburb of south London. (Guardian); American Days: Into the escapist limbo of a top record company executive's office tumble three teenagers, spotted by an insecure talent scout and now given a hit or miss chance to impress...Poliakoff has the dramatic ability to make you care very much...a completely enjoyable play (Financial Times); Strawberry Fields is about three young members of the 'lost generation' of the sixties: Imaginative and controversial...a sort of Pinteresque fantasy with thriller overtones. (Plays and Players)