Adam Brace is a British playwright. His play Stovepipe, performed in promenade, premiered at the HighTide festival in Suffolk before transferring to London for an eight week run in collaboration with the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

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. The play is about corporate soldiers and Brace wrote it after a tour of Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

 where he conducted interviews with men in that job. The play was critically acclaimed, receiving numerous five star reviews and being called 'rivetingly intelligent' by the Sunday Times and 'exhilaratingly convincing' by the Independent

The Independent

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. The play was named at Number 10 in The Times Top Twenty Plays of the Decade.

He has also written a play called A Real Humane Person Who Cares And All That which was well reviewed in Edinburgh 2008 before transferring to the Arcola in London.