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Plays On Demand
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2015/05 - May
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (“Shakespeare in Love,” “Arcadia,” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highlyanticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (“Othello,” “Hamlet,” “One Man,” “Two Guvnors”).
Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science 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 MRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.
Man and Superman: Saturday, May 16: 7:00 P.M.
Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes (“The English Patient,” “Schindler’s List;” “Oedipus” at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.
A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.
Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary.
Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his.
Tickets are available online: www.highlandspac.org or by calling (828) 526-9047. Adults: $22 PAC Members: $18
Highlands Performing Arts Center is located at 507 Chestnut Street in Highlands.
