National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem (2015)
1h 43m
Running Time
April 16, 2015Release Date
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem (2015)
1h 43m
Running Time
April 16, 2015Release Date
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Damien Molony
Spike

Olivia Vinall
Hilary

Parth Thakerar
Amal

Jonathan Coy
Leo

Rosie Hilal
Julia

Lucy Robinson
Ursula

Anthony Calf
Jerry

Daisy Jacob
Cathy

Hayley Canham
Cathy

Vera Chok
Bo

Kristin Atherton
Elaine (on film)

Eloise Webb
Cathy

Benjamin Powell
Pianist

Emma Keith
Producer

Sam Psyk
Associate Producer

Tom Stoppard
Theatre Play / Director

Paul Arditti
Sound Designer

Bob Crowley
Costume Design / Set Designer

David Sabel
Executive Producer

Bernie Davis
Lighting Director

Johann Sebastian Bach
Music

Julia Nelson
Associate Producer

Flo Buckeridge
General Manager

Conrad Fletcher
Sound Supervisor

Fliss Williams
Production Manager

Judy Chesterman
Script Supervisor

David Neill
Camera Operator

Charlotte Sutton
Casting

Giuseppe Cannas
Hair Designer / Wig Designer / Makeup Designer

Tracy Campbell
Sound Mixer

Nicholas Hytner
Stage Director

Tom Giles
Unit Manager

Peter Edwards
Camera Operator

Paul Handley
Production Manager

Mark Henderson
Lighting Design

Wendy Spon
Casting

Matthew Scott
Music Arranger

Paul Freeman
Camera Operator

Wayne Ratcliffe
Camera Operator

Tony Freeman
Camera Supervisor

Giuseppe Ingrao
Camera Operator

Paul Knott
Lighting Supervisor
Media.

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