Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard returns to the National Theatre with his new play “The Hard Problem,” directed by Nicholas Hytner. Transport yourselves to London‘s National Theatre as a live performance of “The Hard Problem” streams to Orcas Center on Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18, $13 for students and  $2 off for Orcas Center members.

Hilary, a psychology researcher at a brain science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is “the hard problem” that puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry.