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National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

6.8 0 mins Drama   2015
National Theatre  
Director(s): Robin Lough

Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.

Casts of National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

Nicholas Le Prevost

as Roebuck Ramsden

Ferdinand Kingsley

as Octavius Robinson

Ralph Fiennes

as Jack Tanner/Don Juan

Indira Varma

as Ann Whitefield/Ana

Christine Kavanagh

as Mrs Whitefield

Clare Clifford

as Miss Ramsden

Faye Castelow

as Violet

Naomi Cranston

as Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat

Nick Hendrix

as Hector Malone

Corey Johnson

as Malone

Tim McMullan

as Mendoza/The Devil

Colin Haigh

as The Anarchist

Arthur Wilson

as The Rowdy Social Democrat

Nicholas Bishop

as The Frenchman (Duval)

Henry Everett

as Police Officer

Mary Keegan

as Police Officer

Simon Markey

as Police Officer

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