The Hard Problem

Tom Stoppard remains my favorite living playwright. His The Hard Problem is not going to be my first choice for a first timer. As always his plays are wordy, thought provoking and require you to be an intelligent and active reader/audience. He does not do Cats, extravaganzas or pie in the face comed......more

What is the “hard problem”? It’s a question about the nature of consciousness and how the brain processes experience. Bored already? But Tom Stop[pard is writing this, so he’s smart and clever and might raise useful questions we need to consider. I recall reading Stoppard’s Arcadia a few years ago,......more

This pales in comparison with Arcadia, there are no beautiful imaginative leaps, the characters are boring and are just argumentative viewpoints, more likely to be found in an essay, made into ‘human’ characters. There’s a Casualty storyline involving adoption and I could see the twist a mile off. A......more

If you wanna challenge your mind Or you are interested in philosophical issues And making questions about whole life, science, God and etc. This is a good play to read! But you should know something before that or in another hand while reading it forced you to search about some definition.......more

I read this at one sitting - so it was certainly readable. But I was surprised how disappointed I was, after looking forward to it for some while. Reading a play is different from seeing it performed, but it is after all 'theatre of ideas'. I was expecting more originality, more killer arguments, mo......more