Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: more reviews

3 stars from The Evening Standard but Nicholas De Jong praised Joseph's performance

Joseph Millson’s poignantly anguished but steely Alexander, a haggard, shaven-headed victim of torture

 

Charles Spencer from The Telegraph appeared to enjoy it.

There are a host of excellent jokes about music and musicians, as well as diversions into Euclidian theory, and the play’s farcical style powerfully captures the bitter black comedy of the Soviet system’s treatment of those who dared to disagree.
All this might seem merely clever, were it not for the play’s powerful undertow of emotion. Stoppard is sometimes accused of being an excessively cerebral writer, but the distress of the dissident’s young son, desperately trying to persuade his father not to kill himself by prolonging a hunger strike, proves powerfully affecting.