Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List and Harry Potter) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of George Bernard Shaw’s witty, provocative classic Man and Superman streaming live from London to Orcas Center on Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 pm.

Jack Tanner, (Ralph Fiennes) celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann Whitefield, the play’s intelligent, beautiful and wily young heroine. 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.

Matt Wolf of the NY Times reported “watching Mr. Fiennes seize the stage and then hold it across more than three hours in the National Theater’s rousing new production of Man and Superman, I felt as if an actor I’d long-known had been reborn.”

A provocative trailer, stunning reviews, behind the scenes cast and images are all at www.orcascenter.org. Click on Man and Superman.

Tickets for NT Live’s Man and Superman are $18, $15 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from noon – 2 pm. For more information about Orcas Center’s 2015 season visit www.orcascenter.org.