Ben Brown (playwright)

Ben Brown is a British playwright. He was educated at Highgate School.^[1] When interviewed about The Promise, his 2010 play about the Balfour Declaration, he said that he had grown up in North London with a non-observant Jewish father.^[2]

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^[3]
• 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^[4]
• The End of the Night, (2022) a drama about the release of Jews from internment camps at the end of the Second World War