Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard that combines drama with a live orchestra to critique political repression and the misuse of psychiatry.

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instanceOf stage play
theatrical work
author Tom Stoppard
co-creator André Previn
composerOfMusic André Previn
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizes Soviet-style psychiatric abuse
misuse of psychiatry
political repression
features live orchestra on stage
firstPerformanceCity London, England
surface form: London
firstPerformanceDate 1977
firstProducedAt Royal Shakespeare Theatre
firstProducedBy Royal Shakespeare Company
firstProducedIn Stratford-on-Avon
surface form: Stratford-upon-Avon
genre drama
political satire
hasCharacterType orchestral musicians
political dissident
psychiatrist
hasForm one-act play
hasIntendedEnsembleSize full symphony orchestra
hasLiveOrchestra true
hasMusicStyle orchestral
hasPoliticalContext Soviet dissident movement
hasTargetOfSatire state-controlled psychiatry
hasTheme conflict between individual conscience and state power
political prisoners
sanity and insanity
truth and propaganda
hasTitleOrigin mnemonic for lines of the treble clef
isFrequentlyRevivedBy major theatre companies
isWrittenBy Tom Stoppard
mainCharacter Alexander Ivanov NERFINISHED
Ivanov’s son
a genuine psychiatric patient named Alexander
medium stage
notableFor critique of totalitarian regimes
integration of full symphony orchestra into dramatic action
originalLanguage English
setting Soviet Union
structure play with orchestra as a character
subjectMatter abuse of medical authority
freedom of expression
political dissidence
psychiatric incarceration
timePeriodDepicted Cold War

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