Russian spies, espionage, and an encounter with the Queen feature in Alan Bennett’s award-winning comedy Single Spies which opens at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake on June 14.
Single Spies premièred at the National Theatre in 1988 and won the 1990 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. The cast here features Karen Ascoe, James Duke, Theo Fraser Steele, Oliver Mott, Thomas Richardson and Toby Vaughan.
A double bill of two short plays (An English Man Abroad and A Question of Attribution), Single Spies uncovers the true stories behind two notorious characters: Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, members of the infamous Cambridge Spies.
Members of the cast are also performing in Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense and Rails (currently showing) and Sense & Sensibility (from August 9), with the plays running in rep until the end of the season.
Single Spies plays to October 24.