Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: Times gives 4 stars again

The Sunday Times has also reviewed the play and awarded four stars.

The other (let’s call him Alexander), played with lugubrious intensity by Joseph Millson, is a political prisoner. “Your opinions are your symptoms,” the doctor tells him. “Your madness is dissent.” All he needs to do to be released is to recant and declare himself cured — but he refuses to give the state that much. Instead, he goes on hunger strike, determined to die on principle, even at the cost of orphaning his son Sasha.