Stephen Poliakoff’s
Blinded by the Sunwas 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 Telegraphcalled 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 25 November 2024.]
