Every Good Boy Deserves A Favour

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Play previewed 9 January 2010, opened 13 January 2010, closed 17 February 2010 at the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre in London.

The National Theatre presents Every Good Boy Deserves A Favour in London at the Olivier Theatre, returning after a critically acclaimed sell-out run in 2009.

Tom Stoppard's provocative and chilling play for actors and orchestra with music by André Previn, staged with an orchestra in an electrifying new production.

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.

Every Good Boy Deserves A Favour in London at the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre returns in 2010 with previews from 9 January 2010, opens on 13 January 2010 and closes on 17 February 2010.