National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem 9 years old

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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National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem Cast

Name	Character
Jonathan Coy He was 61, now 71 years old	as Leo
Anthony Calf He was 55, now 64 years old	as Jerry

National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem Crew

Name	Department
Nicholas Hytner as Director. He was 58 (now 67) years old	Directing