Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Tickets
National Theatre Olivier, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX

A play for actors and orchestra.

Following a sell-out run earlier this year, Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour will return to the National Theatre in 2010.

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. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic, Ivanov, 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 play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.

A co-production with Southbank Sinfonia – Britain’s young professional orchestra.