Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Olivier Theatre

Performances from 9 January 2010, in repertoire until 17 February
Following a sell-out run earlier this year, Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR returns to the Olivier Theatre for a limited run from 9 January to 17 February 2010.

Directed by Felix Barrett and Tom Morris, with design by Bob Crowley, lighting by Bruno Poet, choreography by Maxine Doyle and sound by Christopher Shutt, EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR is a co-production with Southbank Sinfonia, Britain’s young professional orchestra, conducted by Simon Over.

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 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.

Felix Barrett is artistic director of Punchdrunk, whose recent productions include Faust and The Masque of the Red Death.

As an Associate Director of the National, Tom Morris developed Coram Boy, co-adapted A Matter of Life and Death, and co-directed War Horse with Marianne Elliott.  In September 2009 he will become Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic.

Contact:  Jennifer Reynolds on 020 7452 3233; jreynolds@nationaltheatre.org.uk

ALSO…
PRODUCTIONS EXTEND; SUNDAY PERFORMANCES RESUME
Nicholas Hytner’s production of Racine’s PHEDRE, in a version by Ted Hughes, will play in repertoire in the Lyttelton until 27 August.

In the Travelex £10 Tickets Season in the Olivier, Richard Bean’s ENGLAND PEOPLE VERY NICE will continue in repertoire until 9 August; and Shakespeare’s ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, directed by Marianne Elliott, is now booking until 30 September.

Sunday performances in the Olivier and Lyttelton Theatres resume from 9 July, including all the productions above. For the full schedule of performances, please visit: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk