National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
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Released May 14, 2015
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Overview
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
as
Roebuck Ramsden
Ferdinand Kingsley
as
Octavius Robinson
Ralph Fiennes
as
Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Indira Varma
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Ann Whitefield/Ana
Christine Kavanagh
as
Mrs Whitefield
Clare Clifford
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Miss Ramsden
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Faye Castelow
as
Violet
Elliot Barnes-Worrell
as
Straker
Naomi Cranston
as
Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat
Nick Hendrix
as
Hector Malone
Corey Johnson
as
Malone
Tim McMullan
as
Mendoza/The Devil
Crew
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Simon Godwin
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Stage Director
George Bernard Shaw
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Theatre Play
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Emma Keith
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Producer
Robin Lough
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Director
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Fliss Williams
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Production Manager
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Christopher Oram
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Costume Design
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Jonathan Goddard
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Choreographer
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David Sabel
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Executive Producer
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James Farncombe
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Lighting Design
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Sam Psyk
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Associate Producer
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Stephanie Arditti
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Costume Supervisor
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Alan Tabner
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Grip