Leopoldstadt (Screening)

★★★★★
‘Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. Magnificent.’
– Independent

★★★★
‘Tom Stoppard delivers an unforgettable play from the heart.’
– Telegraph

★★★★
‘Devastatingly moving’
– Jewish Chronicle

★★★★
‘Stoppard’s back at his most personal. A glittering triumph.’
– Daily Mail

★★★★
‘Breathtaking, the work of a master’
– Time Out

Regarded as “Britain’s greatest living playwright” (Times), Tony and Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard’s critically acclaimed new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world.

We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic but intimate play.

Filmed live on stage in London’s West End, this masterpiece should not be missed.