Hitting Town - Revision history

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Sources

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Performances in South Africa

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Performances in South Africa

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 == Sources ==
-[[Brian Astbury]], 1979
+[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az|Astbury]] 1979.
 E-mail correspondence with [[Tom Holmes]], 19 December 2015.

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−	1979: Staged in The [Rehearsal Room] at [[Space Theatre\|The Space]] (Cape Town) ~~at the beginning of 1979~~. Directed by [[Brian Astbury]] with [[Carlos da Silva]], [[Caroline Newby]], [[Duarte Sylwain]] and [[Leslee Udwin]] The stage manager was [[Shauna Johnson]].	+	1979: Staged in The [[Rehearsal Room]] at [[Space Theatre\|The Space]] (Cape Town), opening 17 January. Directed by [[Brian Astbury]] with [[Carlos da Silva]], [[Caroline Newby]], [[Duarte Sylwain]] and [[Leslee Udwin]] The stage manager was [[Shauna Johnson]].

	1979: Staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Andrew Buckland]] with [[Tom Holmes]], **. The play was subsequently banned by the South African [[Publications Board]].		1979: Staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Andrew Buckland]] with [[Tom Holmes]], **. The play was subsequently banned by the South African [[Publications Board]].

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-''Hitting Town'' by Stephen Poliakoff (1952-)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Poliakoff]]. **
+''[[Hitting Town]]'' is a one-act play, with several scenes, by Stephen Poliakoff (1952-)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Poliakoff]]. **
 == The original text ==
-It is a one-act play, with several scenes, which follows a brother and sister's wild night of drug and alcohol, ultimately leading to incest.
+The short play follows a brother and sister's wild night of drug and alcohol, ultimately leading to incest.
 Written and first performed in 1976, published as an acting edition by Samuel French Ltd (1977), then as  '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' by Eyre Methuen, London (1978),  as  '''''Hitting Town'',  ''City Sugar''''' in the Heinemann Modern Plays series (Heinemann, 1988) and in ''Poliakoff Plays: 1''  (Methuen Drama, 1990)

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 : Staged in The [Rehearsal Room] at [[Space Theatre|The Space]] (Cape Town) at the beginning of 1979. Directed by [[Brian Astbury]] with [[Carlos da Silva]], [[Caroline Newby]], [[Duarte Sylwain]] and [[Leslee Udwin]] The stage manager was [[Shauna Johnson]].
-: Staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Andrew Buckland]] with [[Tom Holmes]], **. The play was subsequently banned by the [[South African Publications Board]].
+: Staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Andrew Buckland]] with [[Tom Holmes]], **. The play was subsequently banned by the South African [[Publications Board]].
 == Sources ==

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 == The original text ==
-Written and performed in 1976, published as an acting edition by Samuel French Ltd (1977), then as  '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' by Eyre Methuen, London (1978) and as  '''''Hitting Town'',  ''City Sugar''''' in the Heinemann Modern Plays series (Heinemann, 1988) and in ''Poliakoff Plays: 1''  (Methuen Drama, 1990)
+Written and first performed in 1976, published as an acting edition by Samuel French Ltd (1977), then as  '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' by Eyre Methuen, London (1978),  as  '''''Hitting Town'',  ''City Sugar''''' in the Heinemann Modern Plays series (Heinemann, 1988) and in ''Poliakoff Plays: 1''  (Methuen Drama, 1990)
 == Translations and adaptations ==

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−	~~Published~~ as an acting edition by Samuel French Ltd (1977), then as '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' by Eyre Methuen, London (1978) and as '''''Hitting Town'' ~~and~~ ''City Sugar''''' in the Heinemann Modern Plays series (Heinemann, 1988)	+	Written and performed in 1976, published as an acting edition by Samuel French Ltd (1977), then as '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' by Eyre Methuen, London (1978) and as '''''Hitting Town'', ''City Sugar''''' in the Heinemann Modern Plays series (Heinemann, 1988) and in ''Poliakoff Plays: 1'' (Methuen Drama, 1990)

	== Translations and adaptations ==		== Translations and adaptations ==

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−	Published in ''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar'' (Modern Plays~~) by~~ Heinemann (1988)	+	Published as an acting edition by Samuel French Ltd (1977), then as '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' by Eyre Methuen, London (1978) and as '''''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar''''' in the Heinemann Modern Plays series (Heinemann, 1988)

	== Translations and adaptations ==		== Translations and adaptations ==

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		+	Published in ''Hitting Town'' and ''City Sugar'' (Modern Plays) by Heinemann (1988)

	== Translations and adaptations ==		== Translations and adaptations ==

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 == Translations and adaptations ==
+Adapted for TV by the author in 1976 for Thames Television/ITV Play for Britain.
 == Performances in South Africa ==

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 == Sources ==
 E-mail correspondence with [[Tom Holmes]], 19 December 2015.
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 [[Derryn Deavin]], "Actor for the moment" in ''[[The Argus]] Tonight'', May 29 1980: p.7.
-Return to [[ESAT Plays 1 H|H]] in Plays 1 Original SA Plays
+Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
-Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 H|H]] in Plays 2 Foreign Plays
+Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
+Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]
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