{"id":7318,"date":"2019-11-11T20:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalattache.co\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2019-11-19T03:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:01:31","slug":"the-hard-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalattache.co\/2019\/11\/11\/the-hard-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hard Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playwright Tom Stoppard (<i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are\u00a0Dead<\/i>,\u00a0<em>Travesties<\/em>) hadn&#8217;t given the world a new play for nine years. In 2015, he unveiled\u00a0<em>The Hard Problem<\/em>, which\u00a0had its world premiere in London. Critics were divided and now local audiences can get a chance to hear the play when L.A. Theatre Works presents <a href=\"https:\/\/latw.org\/event\/hard-problem-event-201920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four radio-play performances<\/a>\u00a0starting on Friday at the James Bridges Theatre at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hard Problem<\/em>\u00a0finds Hillary, a researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brian Science, torn between her passion for the science of the brain and the intentions of the organizations primary donor. Is he truly philanthropic or is he using the Institute to gain an advantage over his competitors? Are people genuinely good?<\/p>\n<p>When performed in England,\u00a0<em>The Hard Problem<\/em> ran 100 minutes without an intermission. Stoppard reworked the play before its opening in 2018 in New York. \u00a0The work still divided critics.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Murray leads the company as Hillary. Eddie Cahill, Rosie Fellner, Desir\u00e9e Moe Jung, Adhir Kalyan, Julian Morris and Moira Quirk round out the company. Rosalind Ayres directs.<\/p>\n<p>So does\u00a0<em>The Hard Problem<\/em> work or not? You&#8217;ll have four chances to find out. But it is Stoppard. Even the less-successful of his plays gives you plenty to think about.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets go <a href=\"https:\/\/web.ovationtix.com\/trs\/pr\/1010527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo of Tom Stoppard by Martha Swope\/Courtesy of the New York Public Library Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bridges Theatre<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNovember 15th &#8211; November 17th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[4283,4282,4280,4279,353,4284,4278,4286,4285,4281,4277,1037],"class_list":{"0":"post-7318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-the-plays-the-thing","9":"tag-adhir-kalyan","10":"tag-desiree-moe-jung","11":"tag-eddie-cahill","12":"tag-hannah-murray","13":"tag-james-bridges-theatre","14":"tag-julian-morris","15":"tag-l-a-theatre-works","16":"tag-moira-quirk","17":"tag-rosalind-ayres","18":"tag-rosie-fellner","19":"tag-the-hard-problem","20":"tag-tom-stoppard"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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