National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem

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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.

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Creators

Tom Stoppard

director

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Nicholas Hytner

director

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Robin Lough

director

Tom Stoppard

writer

Cast

Damien Molony actor Olivia Vinall actor Parth Thakerar actor Jonathan Coy actor

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Rosie Hilal actor Lucy Robinson actor Anthony Calf actor Daisy Jacob actor

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Vera Chok actor

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Kristin Atherton actor

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Benjamin Powell actor