Trafalgar Studios, LondonBen Brown is British theatre's history man. Last year, he wrote a riveting play, The Promise, about the Balfour Declaration of 1917, supporting "a home for the Jewish people". Now he has come up with a highly efficient, informative study of the crisis that afflicted the five-member cross-party war cabinet in 1940. Although I found The Promise more startling in its revelations, I guess Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PM on November 3, 2011