Every Good boy Deserves Favour

I saw this performance on 12 February at the National Theatre Olivier.

This was an incredibly powerful play. A Soviet dissident is locked in a mental hospital for having delusions, namely that sane people are placed in mental hospitals. I felt as if I had gone back over thirty years to when the political points were particularly relevant and the references to Soviet actions were either current or still in memory. But I am puzzled as to why the play is popular now. Did the mentions of Czechoslovakia or the ironic references to the Soviet constitution have any real meaning to todays audience? Perhaps so as the auditorium was packed. If you can, go and see this.