Release Date

14 May, 2015

Runtime

03:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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. 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. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.

Original Title

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

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Actors

Nicholas Le Prevost

Ferdinand Kingsley

Ralph Fiennes

Indira Varma

Christine Kavanagh

Clare Clifford

Faye Castelow

Elliot Barnes-Worrell

Naomi Cranston

Nick Hendrix

Corey Johnson

Tim McMullan

Colin Haigh

Arthur Wilson

Nicholas Bishop

Henry Everett

Mary Keegan

Simon Markey

Crew

Simon Godwin

Christopher Oram

James Farncombe

Jonathan Goddard

George Bernard Shaw

David Sabel

Emma Keith

Robin Lough

Fliss Williams

Sam Psyk

Bernie Davis

Conrad Fletcher

Laura Vine

Tom Giles