National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

2015 · ⭐ 7 · Votes: 3

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.