National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
14/05/2015
4h

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.
Cast


Nicholas Le Prevost
Roebuck Ramsden


Ferdinand Kingsley
Octavius Robinson


Ralph Fiennes
Jack Tanner/Don Juan


Indira Varma
Ann Whitefield/Ana


Christine Kavanagh
Mrs Whitefield


Clare Clifford
Miss Ramsden
Faye Castelow
Violet


Elliot Barnes-Worrell
Straker


Naomi Cranston
Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat


Nick Hendrix
Hector Malone


Corey Johnson
Malone


Tim McMullan
Mendoza/The Devil


Colin Haigh
The Anarchist


Arthur Wilson
The Rowdy Social Democrat


Nicholas Bishop
The Frenchman (Duval)


Henry Everett
Police Officer


Mary Keegan
Police Officer


Simon Markey
Police Officer
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