Last chance to see Tom Stoppard's LEOPOLDSTADT in the West End
Photo credit: Marc Brenner
The Olivier award-winning and critically acclaimed West End production of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt will conclude its run at Wyndham’s Theatre on 30 October, prior to the production opening in Toronto in January 2022.
Directed by Patrick Marber, the cast includes Sebastian Armesto (Jacob/Nathan/Ludwig), Jenna Augen (Rosa), Rhys Bailey (Young Nathan), Cara Ballingall (Jana), 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), Dorothea Myer-Bennett (Eva), Jake Neads (Mohel/Policeman), Aaron Neil (Ernst), Alexander Newland (Kurt), Macy Nyman (Hermine), Noof Ousellam (Otto), Sadie Shimmin (Poldi), Griffin Stevens (Aaron), Eleanor Wyld (Nellie) and Alexis Zegerman (alternate Eva) with swings Edie Newman and Dan Wolff.
The children’s cast includes Noa Alberts, Shalev Barash, Rocco Brenner, Atticus Collier, Willa Collier, Aidan Greenberg, Mae Sarner Henson, Aidan Herrmann, Una Herrmann, Lexi Hudaly, Audrey Kattan, Amelie Kent, Ollie Kohn, Max Lester, Mace Phoenix, Leo Roberts, Osian Salter, Rafael Shbero, Shoshana Shbero and Sam Sturge.
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.
The set design is by Richard Hudson, with costumes by Brigitte Reiffenstuel, lighting by Neil Austin, and sound and original music by Adam Cork.
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