Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: Recent Episodes

First performed in 1977 at the Royal Festival Hall, Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a play for six actors and an orchestra. It focuses on Alexander Ivanov, a dissident falsely imprisoned in a Soviet mental hospital, and his roomate there, a schizophrenic convinced he has command of a symphony orchestra. The National Theatre revived the production in 2009 with the Southbank Sinfonia, directed by Felix Barrett (Punchdrunk) and Tom Morris.