Single Spies is a comic double-bill - pairing Alan Bennett's two one-act plays: An Englishman Abroad and A Question Of Attribution. Both are based upon real people and historic circumstances in the early years of the cold war and relate the real-life experiences of the “Cambridge Spies” who became both renowned and infamous in British society. It is also the first, time, a reigning British monarch has been portrayed as a character in a play on stage. Single Spies opened to rave reviews at London’s National Theatre in 1988. Subsequently a huge West End hit, these two witty and intelligent plays delighted a public intrigued by espionage and fascinated by forgery.
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Single Spies is a comic double-bill - pairing Alan Bennett's two one-act plays: An Englishman Abroad and A Question Of Attribution. Both are based upon real people and historic circumstances in the early years of the cold war and relate the real-life experiences of the “Cambridge Spies” who became both renowned and infamous in British society. It is also the first, time, a reigning British monarch has been portrayed as a character in a play on stage. Single Spies opened to rave reviews at London’s National Theatre in 1988. Subsequently a huge West End hit, these two witty and intelligent plays delighted a public intrigued by espionage and fascinated by forgery.
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