biography
pronunciation:
[polyakof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1952– )
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| biography:
| Playwright and film director, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and started to write plays as a teenager. A run of his plays produced by the Bush Theatre, including Hitting Town and City Sugar (both 1975) established him as a prolific, original playwright with an instinct for powerful contemporary metaphors. He was writer-in-residence at the National Theatre (1976–7), and had several plays produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Shout Across the River (1978), Breaking the Silence (1984), and Playing with Trains (1989). Later plays include Sienna Red (1992) and Blinded by the Sun (1996), and he wrote and directed the film Close My Eyes (1991), and the television plays Caught on a Train (1980), Shooting the Past (1999), and Perfect Strangers (2001). |
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