Perfect Strangers (uncut version)

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Anything by Stephen Poliakoff, the playwright who gave us modern television milestones such as Caught on a Train and Shooting the Past, is keenly anticipated by anyone who likes to immerse themselves in dramas of sinuous beauty. So rub your hands with glee at the arrival of this elegant three-part story centred on the peculiar and mysterious Symon family, who gather at a London hotel for a huge and startlingly well organised reunion.Though everyone is part of the same family, most are indeed "perfect strangers" to one another, linked by blood but in many cases very little else. A full length study of his work, Stephen Poliakoff: On Stage and Screen, was published in 2011 by Robin Nelson. [15]Narcissistic" Matt Rife Faces More Controversy After Assuming People Hate Him Because They’re "Jealous" In Resurfaced Clip Stephen Poliakoff lives in London and is married to fellow scriptwriter Sandy Welch, with whom he has two children. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2007. [41]

One recalls all those people that seemed immortal. One's parents,captured in photographs; cousins whom one has not seen for years. Then in middle age, you meet people to whom you are related. but have not seen for years. You see pictures of those that are no longer with you. After a writing several successful plays for the stage he got his first break into television in 1977 when he wrote a BBC Play for Today called Stronger Than the Sun. More TV plays were to follow with Bloody Kids and Caught on a Train, which starred Peggy Ashcroft and won Poliakoff his first BAFTA. The series achieved critical acclaim with Gambon winning the BAFTA’s Best Actor and the show won the Royal Television Society award for Best Serial and Best Writer and Poliakoff was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Award. International acclaim included winning a Peabody award and being nominated for an International Emmy award.

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In 1976, Poliakoff won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for Hitting Town and City Sugar and in 1997 he won the Critic's Circle Best Play Award for the National Theatre production of Blinded By The Sun. [16] Television and cinema [ edit ] Perfect Strangers is a television drama first aired in 2001, produced for BBC Two. It was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, and starred Michael Gambon, who won a British Academy Television Award for his performance, [1] Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Skinner, and Toby Stephens. Anton Lesser and Timothy Spall also appear. [2] [3] The drama received two Royal Television Society Awards and a Peabody Award. [4] [5] It was also nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial. [6] Sale, Jonathan (6 May 1999). "Passed/Failed: Stephen Poliakoff". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022 . Retrieved 1 August 2020.