A seated man exhales a cloud of smoke while another man sits watching across the room.

Jermyn Street Theatre2021

A Splinter Of Ice

The Production

Ben Brown’s political drama imagines Graham Greene’s 1987 Moscow meeting with his former MI6 boss Kim Philby, exploring friendship, loyalty and betrayal in the thawing Cold War.

25 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Alan Strachan, Alastair Whatley
Lighting Design: Jason Taylor
Set & Costume Design: Michael Pavelka
Sound Design: Max Pappenheim
Photography: Steve Gregson

Two men stand in a furnished stage room with patterned rugs, armchairs and a painted onion-dome backdrop.

A man in a tan jacket holds up a glass and gestures with his other hand against a dark background.

A man in a tan jacket pours a drink from a glass decanter on stage.

A man in a tan jacket leans toward a seated man in a pinstriped suit and rests a hand near his shoulder.

One man sits back on a sofa while another stands nearby in a wide view of the stage room.

A man in a pinstriped suit stands smiling in front of the painted onion-dome backdrop.

A man in a pinstriped suit covers his face with both hands while another man watches from the foreground.

A seated man in a pinstriped suit gestures with both hands while speaking.

Two men sit close together on a sofa with a bottle and glass on the table in front of them.

A man holding a drink stands beside a seated man in a wide view of the living-room set.

A man in a tan jacket looks upward while holding a drink against a dark stage background.

A seated man holds one hand to his head while a man in a pinstriped suit stands beside him with folded arms.

Two men stand apart on stage with an empty armchair between them.

Two men embrace in the stage room, one facing away from the camera.

A seated man in a pinstriped suit covers part of his face with his hand.

Two seated men hold drinks as one gestures broadly in conversation.

A man in a tan jacket stands with his head lowered while another man sits in the background.

Two men sit across the stage room with a coffee table and chessboard visible between them.

A man in a tan jacket lights a cigarette in a narrow vertical stage view.

A man in a pinstriped suit speaks from an armchair while another man is seen from behind in the foreground.

A man in a tan jacket stands in striped light beside a low table on a darkened stage.

A seated figure is lit by dramatic striped shadows in a mostly dark stage room with purple light on the backdrop.

A seated man leans back under striped shadow with one hand raised over his face.

Two men and a woman stand hand in hand at the front of the stage.

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