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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour


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Every Good Boy Deserves FavourA play for actors and orchestra. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there and the sick are in here. For example, YOU are here because you have delusions, that sane people are put in mental hospitals. A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treated and is now cured, he will be released. He refuses. Your opinions are your symptoms. Your disease is dissent. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident’s son begs his father to free himself with a lie, Tom Stoppard’s darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.
Author Tom Stoppard

Production details

Running Time: 65 minutes with no interval.

Special Performances


  • 13 Feb 10 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)

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Company

Producer National Theatre
Producer Southbank Sinfonia
Music Andre Previn
Company Southbank Sinfonia
Director Felix Barrett
Director Tom Morris
Conductor Simon Over
Design Bob Crowley
Lighting Bruno Poet
Choreographer Maxine Doyle
Sound Christopher Shutt
Performer Sarah Dowling
Performer Conor Doyle
Performer Bronagh Gallagher
Performer Bryony Hannah
Performer Toby Jones
Performer jane Leaney
Performer Rob McNeill
Performer Joseph Millson
Performer Fernanda Prata
Performer Vinicius Salles
Performer Dan Stevens
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