Earwig
Easter
Richard Easton
Eastward Ho!
David Edgar
Educating Rita
Edward II
Edward III
Rob Edwards
Peter Egan
Eh?
Jennifer Ehle
Elective Affinities
Electra
Elgar's Rondo
T.S. Eliot
Michael Elliott
Chris Ellis
Embers
The Empire Builders
Endgame
Enemies
Les enfants du paradis
Susan Engel
Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act
Eric LaRue
Escurial
George Etherege
Euripides
Daniel Evans
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Everyman
Every Man in His Humour
Everything in the Garden
Exiles
Expeditions
A 'play for actors and orchestra' by Tom Stoppard (1977). Stoppard wrote the text to fulfil an invitation from Andre Previn, the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He used the unusual form in a characteristically erudite and imaginative way, but in other respects the work was a departure. Every Good Boy is a protest play about the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union (dissidents were pronounced insane and imprisoned in mental hospitals). Two men share a cell in a prison-hospital. One is a political prisoner, the other a lunatic triangle player who conjures up the orchestra in his imagination.
A co-production between the RSC and the LSO, Every Good Boy was premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in July 1977. Trevor Nunn directed John Wood as the triangle player and Ian McKellen as the dissident. To celebrate their joint occupancy of the Barbican in 1982, Previn and Nunn revived the production.
Ralph Koltai (design)
Ian McKellen (Alexander), John Wood (Ivanov), Patrick Stewart (Doctor), Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Teacher), Philip Locke (Colonel), Andrew Sheldon (Sacha)
1982 Barbican Concert Hall: Trevor Nunn
Ralph Koltai (design); Stewart Leviton (lighting)
Ian McKellen (Alexander), David Suchet (Ivanov), Patrick Stewart (Doctor), Thelma Whiteley (Teacher), Jim Broadbent (Colonel), Jeremy Dimmick (Sacha)
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