Democracy: A Play
"The most intelligent and gripping new English drama since Frayn's last stage outing withCopenhagen. A first-rate spy story and . . . a piece of rare ambition."—Charles Spencer,The Daily Telegraph"Anyone who mourns the disappearance of leaders with real civility and magnetism—or of topical dramas with the same attributes—will be buoyed by [this] extraordinary play . . .Democracyis not another game of Cold War cat-and-mouse. It's really a play about loyalty, one that, in a satisfying way, ends up testing ours."—Peter Marks,The Washington Post"[Democracy] achieves something close to impossible. It fascinates you with the ins and outs, ups and downs, of German politics: not in the Hitler era, not in the chaos of the 1920s, but in the supposedly boring 1970s."—Benedict Nightingale,The New York Times