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.
The Hard Problem, a new play by Tom Stoppard broadcast live from
The National Theatre (2015)
run time 1 hr 43 mins without interval
IMDb tt4624330
Includes an introduction by Emma Freud as
presenter and a short interview with the Director
Nicholas Hynter and Tom Stoppard in a separate
file. Note: English subtitle only for the
interview. English and Italian subtitles for
the play selectable in your VLC or other player.
Additional subtitles added for this upload for
French German and Polish
Summary from the wiki
"The Hard Problem is a play by British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, first
produced in 2015. The title refers to the hard problem of consciousness, which
Stoppard defines as having "subjective First Person experiences"; he notes the
strangeness in the illusion of consciousness in which, clearly, you have to be
conscious to experience."
Cast and creative
directed for the stage by Nicholas Hynter
directed for the screen by Robin Lough
presenter Emma Freud
Spike Damien Molony
Hillary Olivia Vinall
Amal Parth Thakerar
Leo Jonathan Coy
complete list of creatives in the credit roll
My notes
As with others from NTLive this is a recode in smaller size with subtitles more conveniently accessed through your media player. It is from a much larger capture file that I had recoded to torrents four years ago which has expired from search engines.
Tom Stoppard is known for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound and films such as Shakespeare in Love. A longer list is at the wiki for Stoppard. NTLive Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is in this file group.
For this upload I've added a few more sample subtitles which can be done using a Translator source. A text file called How To Add More Subtitles is in this folder to add any other language free.
Notes written January 3rd, 2018
New Notes Written January 29th, 2021
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