The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard
The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard
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The Hard Problem

Author: Tom Stoppard

Narrator: Eddie Cahill, Rosie Fellner, Adhir Kalyan, Alex Wyndham, Desiree Mee Jung, Hannah Murray, Julian Morris, Moira Quirk

Unabridged: 1 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2020


Synopsis

Hilary believes fervently that consciousness is more than the sum of our biology. When she receives a position at a prestigious think tank, she develops a novel experiment to prove that humans are intrinsically altruistic, but the results are something she never anticipated.

Includes a post-show discussion with Mark Tramo, a neuroscientist, neurologist, and musician who is a professor in the UCLA Schools of Medicine, Music, and Letters & Science.

Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in November 2019.

Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Eddie Cahill as Jerry
Rosie Fellner as Julia
Adhir Kalyan as Amal
Julian Morris as Spike
Hannah Murray as Hilary
Desirée Mee Jung as Bo
Moira Quirk as Cathy, Ursula
Alex Wyndham as Leo

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist: Brian DeShazor. Production Manager: Erica R. Christensen. Editor: Mitchell Lindskoog.

Reviews

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

Goodreads review by Dave on June 02, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Livinginthecastle on March 02, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Mary on December 14, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Chris on April 05, 2015

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