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Based on a true story of medical science vs. Native American beliefs, Laufer's play creates a too-simplistic binary picture of the issues, though the production is worth seeing for its excellent staging and acting.

The irony of 'The Hard Problem' is that, despite its insistence on the fact that the human brain is so much more complex than a computer, which functions via simplistic binaries and calculations, the whole play is reducible to a simplistic, and false, binary.