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Nearly all of Poliakoff's plays premiered in London, four at the National Theatre, four at the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Almeida, Hampstead, Bush and Royal Court. Three of his plays have transferred to the West End.
- blinded by the sun. Royal National Theatre (1996) 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 chain of events that will test the department's endurance to the limit.
- Sweet Panic. Hampstead Theatre (1996), revived at Duke of York’s Theatre (2003) A successful psychologist, Clare Attwood is a happy woman. Her work is satisfying, her partner attentive and supportive - she knows her mind and she knows how to live in a hectic urban environment.
- Sienna Red. Peter Hall Company (1992) Cecilia, a woman who has taken refinement in her life to its very limits, has an affair with a man who, by being uniquely himself, is able to exert control over those around him.
- Playing With Trains. The Barbican, Royal Shakespeare Company (1989) A successful and wealthy engineer has made a fortune from a brilliant development in gramophone technology but nevertheless bemoans the lack of support for invention and innovation in British industry.
Poliakoff's play about a family in post-Revolution Russia travelling across the country in a dilapidated railway carriage hasn't been revived, it's believed, since it premiered at the Barbican Pit in 1984.
Mar 14, 2011 · Stephen Poliakoff will direct his first new play in 12 years in London this autumn. My City will premiere at the award-winning Almeida Theatre in Islington. Artistic director Michael Attenborough...
Hitting Town is a stage play written by Stephen Poliakoff and first performed in April 1975 at the Bush Theatre directed by Tim Fywell. Written early in his career, the play won Poliakoff the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright.
He won the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright award for his plays Hitting Town and City Sugar, and has since written over 20 plays, all of which premiered in Britain’s major theatres including four at the Royal National Theatre, four at The Royal Shakespeare Company and three in the West End.
Apr 24, 2007 · The Lost Prince. The prince that history forgot. Born in London in 1952, Stephen Poliakoff dropped out of his degree at Cambridge University in order to write play scripts.
