Spiro Ark is proud to present a rehearsed reading of the play. 

The playwright David Crook will discuss his work after the reading. 

The play shows a series of gripping head-to-head encounters with a single Russian agent through the Cold War to the early 2,000’s.

The prisoner is Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who was instrumental in saving the lives of over 120,000 Jewish people in occupied Budapest in 1944.

Wallenberg has often been considered one of the few truly good people in history, and his exploits and his extraordinary story have made him a legend.

When the Russians advanced on Budapest in early 1945 they became suspicious of Wallenberg. He disappeared into their prison system, and his death has remained a mystery.

The play imagines the interrogations as they could have been conducted, and is based on the facts we know. It portrays a conflict of two individuals, and of Russia and the West.

Photographs taken at the 10th January performance at HGSS by Maurice Hoffman. Please click to enlarge.