Stephen Poliakoff, Blinded by the Sun

Kimball King (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Sep 1996

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United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

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Play

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Stephen Poliakoff’s

Blinded by the Sun

was first presented on the Cottesloe stage in the National Theatre in 1996. The play won the Artists Circle Theatre Award for “best new play” that year. Reviewing

Blinded by the Sun

The Daily Telegraph

called Poliakoff “one of our sharpest and least predictable writers”. Although some commentators claimed that the play was ultimately confusing and unsatisfying (e.g. Matt Wolf,

Variety

, Sept. 22, 1996), reviews of the play were generally favourable.

The play examines the issue of scientific fraud and is perhaps the most scientific of the trilogy that Poliakoff began in 1984 with Breaking the Silence, based in part on the experience of his Russian grandfather, and continued in Playing with Trains (1989). The event which may have influenced

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Citation: King, Kimball. "Blinded by the Sun". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 October 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34400, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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