National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015 | 0m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Robin Lough |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 14, 2015 |
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| Director: | Robin Lough |
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| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | theater play, stage play, filmed theater |
| Production Companies | National Theatre |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 04, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Christopher Shutt | Sound Designer |
| Christopher Oram | Costume Design, Set Designer |
| Jonathan Goddard | Choreographer |
| Conrad Fletcher | Sound Supervisor |
| Tom Giles | Unit Manager |
| Tony Freeman | Camera Operator |
| Giuseppe Ingrao | Camera Operator |
| Wayne Ratcliffe | Camera Operator |
| Paul Stannering | Sound Mixer |
| Stephanie Arditti | Costume Supervisor |
| Simon Godwin | Stage Director |
| James Farncombe | Lighting Design |
| Fliss Williams | Production Manager |
| Bernie Davis | Lighting Director |
| Laura Vine | Script Supervisor |
| Paul Freeman | Camera Supervisor |
| Phil Pearce | Camera Operator |
| David Neill | Camera Operator |
| Alan Tabner | Grip |
| Wendy Spon | Casting |
| Amanda Tyrrell | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Giuseppe Cannas | Makeup Department Head, Hair Department Head, Wig Designer |
| Laurie Clayton | Lighting Supervisor |
| Paul Wanklin | Special Effects |
| George Bernard Shaw | Theatre Play |
| Robin Lough | Director |
| Michael Bruce | Music |
| Name | Title |
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| David Sabel | Executive Producer |
| Sam Psyk | Associate Producer |
| Emma Keith | Producer |
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What a piece of work is “Man and Superman”? Hard work, to be frank. George Bernard Shaw’s experimental juggernaut — deemed unstageable in 1903 — makes for three and a half hours of tangled philosophy: a blow-away light comedy weighed down by footnotes. It’s a play for changing times, a bid to throw ... off the past and make things anew, and yet Simon Godwin’s handsome, modern-dress revival at the National Theatre treats it as a cultural artefact. His production abandons its audience, offering no clues for decoding the text, while Ralph Fiennes plays the motor-mouth social reformer Jack Tanner like a tongue-twister challenge. You keep up or else.