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Lincoln Center Theater presents the New York premiere of Tom Stoppard's drama.

This show is closed.

Performances ended on Jan. 6, 2019.

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About The Hard Problem

Hilary is a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is “the hard problem” facing science, and for Hilary the possibility of genuine altruism, without a hidden Darwinian self-interest, depends on the answer. Meanwhile she is nursing a private sorrow. She needs a miracle and is prepared to pray for one.

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