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National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem

7.0 103 mins Drama   2015
National Theatre  
Director(s): Tom Stoppard

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.

Casts of National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem

Damien Molony

as Spike

Olivia Vinall

as Hilary

Parth Thakerar

as Amal

Jonathan Coy

as Leo

Rosie Hilal

as Julia

Lucy Robinson

as Ursula

Anthony Calf

as Jerry

Daisy Jacob

as Cathy

Vera Chok

as Bo

Kristin Atherton

as Elaine (on film)

Benjamin Powell

as Pianist

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