Has corruption become mainstream, and is reality actually an illusion? Michael Frayn once again focuses on treason, power and human identity: Perhaps we are all spies when it comes down to it? The year is 1974. Western Germany’s chancellor and the biggest political icon of Europe Willy Brandt, has to resign when it is revealed that his secretary is an East German spy: Günter Guillaume became the exterior reason to the fall of the chancellor, but who was the real villain – was it the women? Did his own friends stab him in the back? Or was Willy Brandt himself the traitor? A fantastic spy drama of Shakespearian dimensions in which ten men play a deadly game. Winner: Best play 2003 Evening Standard and The Critics’ Circle Awards.
