If a representative of MI5 asked for the surreptitious use of your front bedroom to spy on possible treasonous activity in your street, would you agree? In 1960, when a Ruislip family faces this dilemma in the play Pack of Lies, most of an authority-respecting post-war nation would have unquestioningly ushered the spooks upstairs, as the characters in the play do.
18 October 2018, The Tablet
The eyes still have it: Hugh Whitemore's 1983 play about spies and surveillance is bang up to date
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