Wednesday 10th February 2021 at 7pm (UK time), 8pm (Italy)

 

ONLINE PARTICIPATIVE PLAY-READING

 

LEOPOLDSTADT

 

by Tom Stoppard Curated by Justin Butcher and Andrew Harrison

‘In 2003, Tom Stoppard was asked if he would ever write a “Jewish play”. “Absolutely,” he answered, though he was more ambivalent about basing it on his personal story. Only a decade earlier, he had found out he was fully Jewish and that many of his Czech family had died in Nazi concentration camps. Here is his Jewish play – not directly based on Stoppard’s family, but he says it’s his most personal play and perhaps his last. As such, there is something momentous about Leopoldstadt, which has the weight and majesty of a final drama. It is grand, contemplative and elegiac with a cast of more than 20 and a historical sweep across six decades.’ (The Guardian)