National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

May. 14,2015      
Rating:
8.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Nicholas Le Prevost as  Roebuck Ramsden
Ferdinand Kingsley as  Octavius Robinson
Ralph Fiennes as  Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Indira Varma as  Ann Whitefield/Ana
Christine Kavanagh as  Mrs Whitefield
Clare Clifford as  Miss Ramsden
Faye Castelow as  Violet
Elliot Barnes-Worrell as  Straker
Naomi Cranston as  Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat
Nick Hendrix as  Hector Malone

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