A NEW production of Alan Bennett’s Olivier Award-winning Best Comedy, Single Spies, starring Nicholas Farrell, Belinda Lang and David Robb, tours to the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 4 to Saturday 9 April.

This hit double-bill, featuring An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution, sparkles with Alan Bennett’s trademark wit and continues to delight audiences with its intriguing revelations about espionage and forgery. Directed by Olivier Award-nominated Rachel Kavanaugh, this compelling satirical drama spans the globe from Moscow to London in two one-act plays, and reveals lives lived under cover of fraud and exile.

Exploring the public’s fascination with Russian spies and royalty, Single Spies chronicles the exploits of two members of the notorious ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring, recruited by the Soviet Union during World War II.

In 1950s Moscow, actress Coral Browne receives an invitation to lunch with shunned Soviet spy, Guy Burgess, with the sole instruction to ‘bring a tape measure’. An Englishman Abroad is a wry and touching play which chronicles the pair’s fleeting friendship and Burgess’ attempts to cling to his way of life as a Soviet citizen.

A Question of Attribution gives us a glimpse into Anthony Blunt’s life of espionage within the very walls of Buckingham Palace. Following his double-life as an art historian to royalty and a Soviet spy, this witty tale of forgery and deceit culminates in a sharp and candid interrogation from Her Majesty The Queen herself.

For more details visit www.theatreroyal.org.uk