Ben Brown (playwright)

Ben Brown is a British playwright. He was educated at Highgate School.[1] When interviewed about The Promise, his 2010 play about the Balfour Declaration, he said that he had grown up in North London with a non-observant Jewish father.[2]

Works
  • Larkin With Women, (2000) a portrait of Philip Larkin and his love-lives which won the TMA Best New Play award that year
  • All Things Considered, (1996) a black comedy about philosophy and suicide
  • The Promise (2010), about the Balfour Declaration[3]
  • Three Days in May, (2011) a drama concentrating on Winston Churchill's darkest hours in the early parts of the Second World War
  • A Splinter of Ice, (2020) a drama that reconstructs the meeting between spy Kim Philby and author Graham Greene in Moscow in 1987[4]

Sources
  1. Dickson, Alex (Summer 2013). "The History Boy" (PDF). Cholmeleian: 66–69. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  2. "Playwright creates historical drama out of a political crisis (From This is Local London)". Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  3. Theatre, Orange Tree. "Orange Tree Theatre". orangetreetheatre.co.uk.
  4. "A Splinter of Ice review – Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses". the Guardian. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.


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