Jenny Webb's Reviews > The Hard Problem

A play about the relationship between the material and the moral.

Put another way, this is a play about maternity and grace.

I think it’s probably easier to latch onto the presentation of the ideas via the first articulation (materiality/morality) than the second for many people, since that’s how we encounter this debate in contemporary culture.

But what’s fascinating here to me is the way Stoppard insists on structuring the apparently primary material/moral story on top of an explicitly maternal (with all the embodied dimensions that word implies) wound whose resolution is, at root, *gifted*.

Plenty think through, and rethink through. Would love to see this one staged.