Ben Brown is a British playwright. He was educated at
Highgate School
Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate ...
. When interviewed about ''
The Promise'', his 2010 play about the
Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman regio ...
, he said that he had grown up in North London with a non-observant Jewish father.
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
* ''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
Sources
British dramatists and playwrights
Living people
People educated at Highgate School
British male dramatists and playwrights
Year of birth missing (living people)
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