An Englishman Abroad.
by:
Alan Bennett (author)
Michael Gambon is Guy Burgess and Penelope Wilton the actress Coral Browne in Bennett's re-telling of a real-life incident. Whilst touring 'Hamlet' Moscow with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958, Browne is astonished to have Burgess appear in her dressing room. Having disappeared from...
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Michael Gambon is Guy Burgess and Penelope Wilton the actress Coral Browne in Bennett's re-telling of a real-life incident. Whilst touring 'Hamlet' 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. This full-cast dramatisation was originally broadcast on BBC World Service.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780563535799 (0563535792)
Publish date: August 6th 2001
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
Edition language: English
bookshelves: play-dramatisation Read in April, 2008 Actress Coral Browne arrives in Moscow and meets exiled English spy Guy Burgess. Michael Gambon is Guy Burgess and Penelope Wilton the actress Coral Browne in Bennett's re-telling of a real-life incident. Whilst touring 'Hamlet' Moscow w...
Actress Coral Browne arrives in Moscow and meets exiled English spy Guy Burgess.
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