Location: Olivier Theatre Type of production: Play Opened: 09 January 2010

Booking until: 17 February 2010

Running time: 1 hr 5 mins

Author/Playwright: Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn

Director: Felix Barrett and Tom Morris



Synopsis:

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.

Your opinions are your symptoms.
Your disease is dissent.

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.

With music composed by André Previn and staged with the pioneering orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia.