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