CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW

About the show

The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English nobility, the other a Georgian peasant, hell-bent on destroying capitalism and the class system. Can Churchill and Stalin find common ground? As diplomats struggle to control the escalating chaos, two interpreters find themselves caught in the eye of the storm. The world premiere of Howard Brenton’s gripping drama dramatises the meeting of two unpredictable titans as history teeters on a knife-edge. Three-time Olivier Award winner Roger Allam plays Winston Churchill, alongside a stellar cast including Peter Forbes as Joseph Stalin. Howard Brenton’s plays have been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hampstead Theatre and the Royal Court. Directed by the OT’s Artistic Director, Tom Littler, Churchill in Moscow is Brenton and Littler’s sixth collaboration.