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City Sugar By Stephen Poljakoff

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BBC Radio 3, 21 January 1979 20.00

City Sugar By Stephen Poljakoff

'No need to worry, no need to be sad. Shout that out. So tune in. Tune in said I tune in. Because It'll take your mind off of things. Oh yes it will.'

Adapted and directed by Dickon Reed

A World Service Drama Production

Leonard Brazil: John Shrapnel

Rex: Michiel Mast

Susan: Catherine Kessler

Jane: Jean Rogers

Ross/Jim: Tony McEwan

Supermarket Manager: Bruce Beeby

CITY SUGAR

Bush Theatre (1975), Comedy Theatre (1976)

Like Hitting Town, City Sugar premiered at the Bush Theatre in 1975, it is a companion piece to the earlier play in that it features the young waitress Nicola and follows how she is manipulated by the local disc jockey during a promotional campaign designed to whip up excitement amongst the station's audience.

City Sugar premiered at the Bush Theatre in 1975 when the tormented Leonard Brazil was played by John Shrapnel and Rex, his young assistant in the studio, was played by Leon Vitali just after he had made Barry Lyndon with Stanley Kubrick.

In 1976 the play then transferred to the Comedy Theatre with Adam Faith taking over as Leonard Brazil and James Aubrey who had starred in Hitting Town as Rex.

City Sugar, along with Hitting Town, won Poliakoff the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award in 1976.

The play was widely performed in regional cities all over Britain, was presented in New York with Jeff Goldblum in the lead role and was made into a…

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