In 1982, the play was performed at the Greenwich Theatre in London (UK) under the title of "The Assassin", starring Edward Woodward and Michele Dotrice. Eighteen years later in 2000 it was performed again in Britain under the title of "The Novice", starring Jamie Glover as Hugo and Kenneth Cranham as Hoederer. The director was Richard Eyre, who used it to raise conflicting differences in contemporary British political life, such as the Northern Ireland peace process or the Old and New factions of Britain's Labour Party government. In 2017, the play was also adapted by Leopold Benedict for the Pembroke Players, under the title of a "Dirty Hands: A Brexistential Crisis", to comment on the politics of the post-Brexit era.