The National Theatre’s The Hard Problem
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April 16, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Olivia Vinall as “Hilary” in Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem
The Grand screens a live, high definition presentation of The National Theatre of London’s production of Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem, from the acclaimed playwright of such theatrical classics as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, on Thursday, April 16th at 2 pm. General admission tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors, $14 for Grand members, $12 for students, and $10 for youth 12 and under, and are available at The Grand Box Office, by phone (207) 667-9500, or online at www.grandonline.org.
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love and Arcadia) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet and 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.
So bring a friend and share the experience of seeing one of the world’s finest theaters presenting an electrifying production that The Guardian’s Susannah Clapp deemed “sleek, humorous, acute and urbane.”– NT Live’s HD presentation of Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem on screen at The Grand.
The Grand is proud to be presenting NT Live, a series of high definition simulcasts and encore performances from The National Theatre of London, which includes a hi-def screening of Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List) starring in George Bernard Shaw’s classic Man and Superman. Don’t miss this eagerly anticipated new production, broadcast live from the National Theatre presented at 2 pm on Thursday, May 14th, as part of The Grand’s commitment to presenting theater in all its forms.
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