NEW YORK—Are people shaped innately or are their outlooks on life shaped by their experiences, beginning from the moment of birth, before they are even consciously aware of their surroundings? For that matter, what exactly is consciousness? Is it the ability to move from theory to fact via impulse, inspiration, and/or the pulling together of dozens of variables?
These are the questions that form the crux of Tom Stoppard’s 2015 play, “The Hard Problem,” making its Off-Broadway debut at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
