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Available onlineBen Brown’s new play imagining the author’s Moscow meeting with his former MI6 colleague fails to truly chill
The theatre is rich in dramas about the Cambridge spies. Alan Bennett – in A Question of Attribution and An Englishman Abroad – and Julian Mitchell in Another Country, have looked at them sidelong. Characters and motives are illuminated obliquely: through painting, schooldays and startling encounters – as if the plays themselves were undercover. In his new play, Ben Brown approaches these chaps, and the British establishment they left, head on.
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