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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

a play for actors and orchestra

by Tom Stoppard and André Previn

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.

With music composed by André Previn and staged with the pioneering orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia.

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

Read about the play on Wikipedia  

Cast credits:

: cast includes

Ensemble : Sarah Dowling

Ensemble : Conor Doyle

The Teacher : Bronagh Gallagher

Sacha : Bryony Hannah

Ivanov : Toby Jones

Ensemble : Jane Leaney

Ensemble : Rob McNeill

Alexander : Joseph Millson

Ensemble : Fernanda Prata

Ensemble : Vinicius Salles

The Doctor : Dan Stevens

Production credits:

Orchestra: Southbank Sinfonia

Directors: Felix Barrett and Tom Morris

Conductor: Simon Over

Designer: Bob Crowley

Lighting Designer: Bruno Poet

Choreographer: Maxine Doyle

Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt

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