The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (tour)

Following its sell-out debut at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre in 2024, and a recent West End run at @sohoplace, David Eldridge’s adaptation of the John Le Carré classic The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is now on a nationwide tour. Directed by Jeremy Herrin, and starring Ralf Little, the production can currently be found at Richmond Theatre. Alec Leamas has just lost his final operative at the Berlin Station; Karl Riemeck was shot down (on the orders of counterintelligence officer Mundt) as he attempted to breach the Berlin Wall and cross over to West Germany. Disillusioned, Leamas is on the brink of quitting the intelligence service, until Control offers him a tantalising final operation: discredit Mundt, collect a tidy pension pot, and leave the Service for good. Part of the long game involved in this operation involves Leamas being supposedly dismissed, before taking up numerous dead-end jobs at the suggestion of the labour exchange – his final place of employment takes him to the…