Apr 16, 2015
103 min
Full-HD

National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem (2015)

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors). Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

Category

Drama

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

National Theatre

Damien Molony

Spike

Olivia Vinall

Hilary

Parth Thakerar

Amal

Jonathan Coy

Leo

Rosie Hilal

Julia

Lucy Robinson

Ursula

Anthony Calf

Jerry

Daisy Jacob

Cathy

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