Dancing On The Edge is a five-part explosive new drama series for BBC2 set in the early 1930s following a black jazz band in London during times of extraordinary change.
Stephen Poliakoff is one of Britain's most prolific and decorated writers. He has won a BAFTA for Best Single Play for Caught on a Train in 1980, the Evening Standard's Best British Film Award for Close My Eyes in 1992, The Critics' Circle Best Play Award for Blinded by the Sun in 1996 and the Prix Italia and the Royal Television Society Best Drama Award for Shooting the Past in 1999. Perfect Strangers won the Dennis Potter Award at the 2002 BAFTAs and Best Writer and Best Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards, while The Lost Prince, won three Emmy Awards in 2005 including Outstanding Mini Series. His work for the BBC includes Friends and Crocodiles and Gideon's Daughter (both 2006), which won two Golden Globes and a Peabody Award in 2007.
A propulsive whodunnit ... hurtling towards a resolution with
panache and surprise ... In Dancing on the Edge, Poliakoff has
constructed a believable world, spanning turbulent class divides,
and has shown how breaking convention (and the march of progress)
come at the risk of losing the safety and comfort of the old
ways.
*Arts Desk*
Every Poliakoff TV drama is a 24-carat event
*Guardian*
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