National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
14/05/2015
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.
Movie Information
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
Corey Johnson
as Malone
Tim McMullan
as Mendoza/The Devil
Colin Haigh
as The Anarchist
Arthur Wilson
as The Rowdy Social Democrat
Nicholas Bishop
as The Frenchman (Duval)
Henry Everett
as Police Officer
Mary Keegan
as Police Officer
Simon Markey
as Police Officer
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