Last night Stuart and I went to see The Spy Who Came In From The Cold at @sohoplace in London’s glitzy Soho.
It is 1961 and the Berlin Wall is going up but my main concern was whether Stuart would complain about the legroom or the air conditioning. He did neither because the seats are excellent.
This is the first time the famous book by John le Carré has been adapted for the stage and the writer is David Eldridge. I must declare a huge conflict of interest here as I know David personally but I would say this is brilliant even if I did not know him from Adam.
The plot is a proper old school espionage thriller about a burnt out spy called Alec Leamas who is sent on one last mission to fake his defection to East Germany. Rory Keenan is absolutely superb as the sweaty and angry Leamas who drinks enough whisky to kill a horse and smokes enough cigarettes to fog up the whole of London.
He meets a sweet communist librarian played by the wonderful @aggiocasey and things go terribly wrong because in spy world nobody is ever allowed to be happy.
George Smiley pops up too played by the excellent John Ramm to pull the strings. It is tense and atmospheric and makes you glad you do not live in the Cold War anymore. Er…
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