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| − | Published | + | 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) |
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Revision as of 08:21, 19 December 2015
Hitting Town by Stephen Poliakoff (1952-)[1]]. **
Contents
The original text
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
Adapted for TV by the author in 1976 for Thames Television/ITV Play for Britain.
Performances in South Africa
1979: Staged in The [Rehearsal Room] at 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 at the Grahamstown Festival, directed by Andrew Buckland with Tom Holmes, **. The play was subsequently banned by the South African Publications Board.
Sources
Brian Astbury, 1979
E-mail correspondence with Tom Holmes, 19 December 2015.
Derryn Deavin, "Actor for the moment" in The Argus Tonight, May 29 1980: p.7.
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