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National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem (2015) [N/A]

Release Date:
April 16, 2015

Original Title:
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem

Alternate Titles:
NT Live: The Hard Problem
The Hard Problem
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
National Theatre

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 12A 

Runtime: 103

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Associate Producer:
Julia Nelson
Sam Psyk

Camera Operator:
Peter Edwards
Paul Freeman
Giuseppe Ingrao
David Neill
Wayne Ratcliffe

Camera Supervisor:
Tony Freeman

Casting:
Wendy Spon
Charlotte Sutton

Costume Design:
Bob Crowley

Director:
Tom Stoppard

Executive Producer:
David Sabel

General Manager:
Flo Buckeridge

Hair Designer:
Giuseppe Cannas

Lighting Design:
Mark Henderson

Lighting Director:
Bernie Davis

Lighting Supervisor:
Paul Knott

Makeup Designer:
Giuseppe Cannas

Music:
Johann Sebastian Bach

Music Arranger:
Matthew Scott

Producer:
Emma Keith

Production Manager:
Fliss Williams
Paul Handley

Script Supervisor:
Judy Chesterman

Set Designer:
Bob Crowley

Sound Designer:
Paul Arditti

Sound Mixer:
Tracy Campbell

Sound Supervisor:
Conrad Fletcher

Stage Director:
Nicholas Hytner

Theatre Play:
Tom Stoppard

Unit Manager:
Tom Giles

Wig Designer:
Giuseppe Cannas

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