{"id":2414,"date":"2019-06-10T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=2414"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:21:46","slug":"brown-ben","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=2414","title":{"rendered":"Brown, Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Brown is a writer for theatre, film, and television who grew up in North London. His background is part Jewish, part aristocratic. Brown&#8217;s first original play, <em>All Things Considered<\/em> (1997), is a black comedy about philosophy and suicide. It premiered at Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Hampstead Theatre, London and continued to be produced in Australia, Germany, and France. <em>Larkin With Women<\/em> (1999), a play about Philip Larkin and his complex private life, won the TMA Best New Play Award. Brown&#8217;s play <em>The Promise<\/em> (2010) focuses on the Balfour Declaration and explores one of the fundamental roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Amongst Brown&#8217;s latest plays, <em>Three Days in May<\/em> (2011) stages Winston Churchill&#8217;s decision to go to war and won Brown the Whatsonstage Best New Play Award. A <em>Splinter of Ice<\/em> (2020) is a play based on the meeting of spy Kim Philby and author Graham Greene in 1987 in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plays<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8212;. <em>All Things Considered<\/em>. London: Samuel French, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8212;. <em>Larkin With Women<\/em>. London: Faber and Faber, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8212;. <em>The Promise<\/em>. London: Faber and Faber, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8212;. <em>Three Days in May<\/em>. London: Faber and Faber, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8212;.<em> A Splinter of Ice.<\/em> (2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Brown is a writer for theatre, film, and television who grew up in North London. His background is part Jewish, part aristocratic. Brown&#8217;s first original play, All Things Considered (1997), is a black comedy about philosophy and suicide. It premiered at Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Hampstead Theatre, London and continued to be produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions\/3150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}