Movies
TV Shows
People
14/05/2015 Drama 3h 40m
56
User score

Overview

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.

  1. Robin Lough

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Nicholas Le Prevost

    Roebuck Ramsden

  2. Ferdinand Kingsley

    Octavius Robinson

  3. Ralph Fiennes

    Jack Tanner/Don Juan

  4. Indira Varma

    Ann Whitefield/Ana

  5. Christine Kavanagh

    Mrs Whitefield

  6. Clare Clifford

    Miss Ramsden

  7. Faye Castelow

    Violet

  8. Elliot Barnes-Worrell

    Straker

  9. Naomi Cranston

    Housekeeper/The Sulky Social Democrat

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by Charlie
Written by Charlie on 2018-05-12
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 Ja...read the rest
Read All Reviews

Recommendations

  1. National Theatre Live: Hamlet75%
  2. TalhotBlond63%
  3. King Lear60%
  4. Hamilton77%
  5. Reading Lolita in Tehran73%
  6. Hamlet74%
  7. Vanya on 42nd Street66%
  8. Normal66%
  9. Synecdoche, New York75%
  10. What Maisie Knew71%
  11. Resurrecting the Champ63%
  12. Home67%
  13. Skin64%
  14. Fast Girls61%
  15. The Truth About Emanuel59%
  16. Come Sunday58%
  17. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius59%
  18. WWE WrestleMania XXIV80%
  19. My Dinner with Hervé63%
  20. Head Full of Honey63%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords