National Theatre
Live enables audiences to experience the best of British theatre throughout the
year, as the NT brings cameras into the auditorium to record and broadcast
performances from stage to screen. Over three and a half million people have
experienced a National Theatre Live broadcast via satellite, both live and
time-delayed, in more than 2,000 venues in over 40 different countries around
the world, including South Africa. National Theatre Live events are distributed
outside the U.K. through New York-based BY Experience, the pioneer of global
live “alternative content” digital cinema events.
Forthcoming
productions from National Theatre Live to be screened at Cinema Nouveau in
South Africa within the next few months include:
The Hard Problem (releases on May 16 2015), a new play by
Tom Stoppard, directed by Nicholas Hytner
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.
The production can
be seen at Cinema Nouveau at Gateway.
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