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The Hard Problem (NTLive HD)
a new play by Tom Stoppard
Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 4:00PM

The James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Melnitz Hall
235 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Conveniently located on the northern edge of UCLA campus in Melnitz Hall, just off Sunset (at Hilgard) Parking in lot #3, just steps from the theater!

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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.