CMU School of Drama


Monday, January 19, 2009

Stoppard’s Cold War Music Drama Returns With Chilling Relevance

Bloomberg.com: Arts and Culture: "It was amid this dull thud of horrors that Tom Stoppard dramatized Soviet abuses of psychiatry in an hour-long play titled “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” (EGBDF). A bold and unfashionable departure for a rising dramatist in a left-tilted theatrical profession, the play required a 40-piece orchestra on stage and was easily sidelined on grounds of cost and impracticality."

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