An Englishman Abroad
Author
Genre
Language
English
Performer
Producer
Characters
Guy Burgess
Coral Browne
Rating
Whilst touring 'Hamlet' in Moscow with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958, Browne is astonished to have Burgess appear in her dressing room. Having disappeared from England in 1951 together with fellow diplomat Donald Maclean, spy Burgess is a wanted man. Bennett's take on the encounter is both poignant and comic, and the play examines his life in exile, his love of England and his even greater love of Russia.