National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

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.

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  Nicholas Le Prevost

  Roebuck Ramsden
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  Ferdinand Kingsley

  Octavius Robinson
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  Ralph Fiennes

  Jack Tanner/Don Juan
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  Indira Varma

  Ann Whitefield/Ana
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  Christine Kavanagh

  Mrs Whitefield
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  Clare Clifford

  Miss Ramsden
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  Elliot Barnes-Worrell

  Straker
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  Naomi Cranston

  Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat
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  Nick Hendrix

  Hector Malone
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  Corey Johnson

  Malone