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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Opens: 09/01/2010 Closes: 17/02/2010 National Theatre, London

All he has to do to escape the asylum is admit insanity but, despite his son's pleas, a dissident refuses to lie. The darkly funny but chilling play by Tom Stoppard and André Previn returns to the National Theatre in an electrifying new production about the price of liberty.

For more information visit: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/everygoodboy Buy: https://ticketing.nationaltheatre.org.uk/production.aspx?performanceNumber=10523
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Guardian“Stoppard's ­amiably absurd and ironic script ­undercuts the ­emotion...” In 1977, it may well have seemed potent, but shorn of its ­immediate, horrific political ­relevancy, this brief play emerges as a very clever, entertaining and ­expensive joke...
 
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this is london“Its potent depiction of repression is pretty timeless...” Altogether, it feels like worthy curiosity that leaves you impressed but also convinced that cost alone did not prevent orchestral, political plays from taking off as a genre...
 
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The Telegraph“As moving as anything Stoppard has written...” It may last little more than an hour but in its ambition, its indignation and its wit, this dark piece of musical theatre, written in partnership with Andre Previn, strikes me as a model of political theatre at its best...
 
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The Times“Leaves you as breathless as a swift kick in the guts...” An eloquent indictment of Soviet-era repression and of continuing tyrannies, couched in a thrillingly theatrical language in which movement, light and, above all, music speak resonantly and words can prove treacherous...
 
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