{"product_id":"every-good-boy-deserves-favour-a-play-for-actors-and-orchestra-and-professional-foul-a-play-for-television-9780571112265","title":"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A Play for Actors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Good Boy Deserves Favour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Good Boy\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Festival Hall, London, in July 1977. It was revived at the National Theatre, London, in January 2009.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessional Foul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Professor Anderson, a somewhat devious academic, went to Prague to deliver a lecture on Ethical Facts in Ethical Fiction and to see a football match. Politics intruded when a former pupil of Anderson begged him to smuggle out a thesis arguing that the ethics of the State can only be the ethics of the individual writ large . . . Mr Stoppard''s BBC television debut was sheer de\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403062223191,"sku":"9780571112265","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571112265.jpg?v=1730482284","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/every-good-boy-deserves-favour-a-play-for-actors-and-orchestra-and-professional-foul-a-play-for-television-9780571112265","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}