Rose Productions

Rose Productions presents a major revival of Alan Bennett's Single Spies - the award-winning double bill of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution.

With his customary perceptive wit, Alan Bennett examines the murky shadows lying behind even the most familiar facades.

In An Englishman Abroad, actress Coral Browne receives an intoxicated visitor to her dressing-room in a Moscow theatre. He's a familiar, upper-class Englishman – the disgraced double-agent Guy Burgess. Invited to dine at his flat, she is given one simple instruction - ‘bring a tape measure’.

A Question Of Attribution follows Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. A chance encounter with the Queen leads to a sharp exchange of wits, but will he reveal to her what would later be revealed to the world - that the man who worked in the heart of her household was also a Soviet spy?