Michael Aldridge

This Emmy-nominated production features a stellar cast including George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Gabriel Byrne. It explores the ascent and decline of…

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief. George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla ‘The Sandman’ of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.