This production opened on 25th January 2020 and closed on 30th October 2021.
★★★★★
Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. Magnificent.
The Independent
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann’s extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and – for Austrian Jews – the Holocaust in which 65,000 of them were murdered. It is for the survivors to pass on a story which hasn’t ended yet.
★★★★
Tom Stoppard delivers an unforgettable play from the heart
Telegraph
Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (The Times), Tom Stoppard’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber, is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good.
Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. Tom Stoppard’s most humane and heart-breaking play.
★★★★
Tom Stoppard’s new masterwork is an early contender for play for the year.
Evening Standard
CAST
SEBASTIAN ARMESTO – Jacob/Nathan/Ludwig
JENNA AUGEN – Rosa
CARA BALLINGALL – Jana
RHYS BAILEY – Young Nathan
FAYE CASTELOW – Gretl
JOE COEN – Policeman/Zac
FELICITY DAVIDSON – Hilde
MARK EDEL-HUNT – Civilian/Fritz
CLARA FRANCIS – Wilma
ARTY FROUSHAN – Leo
ILAN GALKOFF – Pauli
CAROLINE GRUBER – Emilia
SAM HOARE – Percy
NATALIE LAW – Hanna
AVYE LEVENTIS – Sally
AIDAN MCARDLE – Hermann
MACY NYMAN – Hermine
NOOF OUSELLAM – Otto
DOROTHEA MYER-BENNETT – Eva
JAKE NEADS – Mohel/Policeman
AARON NEIL – Ernst
ALEXANDER NEWLAND – Kurt
SADIE SHIMMIN – Poldi
GRIFFIN STEVENS – Aaron
ELEANOR WYLD – Nellie
CREATIVES
TOM STOPPARD – Playwright
PATRICK MARBER – Director
RICHARD HUDSON – Set Design
BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL – Costume Design
NEIL AUSTIN – Lighting Design
ADAM CORK – Sound and Original Music
EMILY JANE BOYLE – Movement
AMY BALL CDG – Casting
VERITY NAUGHTON – Children's Casting