![]() ![]() On 25 October 2020 Leopoldstadt won the Olivier Award for American Airlines' Best New Play, and Adrian Scarborough won for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Leopoldstadt's original run at Wyndham's - which had no seat unsold at any performance - was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the production temporarily shut down on 16 March 2020. It's got the lot." During rehearsals he "instituted a fabulous regime of lectures" given by cast members, allotting each a subject relevant to the play's themes to investigate. Patrick Marber, who worked with Stoppard on the revival of Travesties in London and New York, commented that "It's a big company play which as a director is incredibly exciting to do. The play's second preview performance had also taken place on Holocaust Memorial Day, in 2020, when each audience member was given a memorial candle as they left the theatre. Ī National Theatre Live recording was screened in over 380 cinemas on 27 January ( Holocaust Memorial Day), 2022 and topped that night's UK and Ireland box office. On 2 October 2022, the production opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre with Marber directing. Quite a lot of it is personal to me, but I made it about a Viennese family so that it wouldn't seem to be about me." All four of Stoppard's grandparents were Jews murdered by Nazis in concentration camps. According to Stoppard, the play "took a year to write, but the gestation was much longer. The play is set among the wealthy Jewish community in Vienna, in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of "a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East". Leopoldstadt is a play by Sir Tom Stoppard, originally directed by Patrick Marber, which premiered on 25 January 2020 at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. Vienna during first half of the 20th century from 1899 to 1955 History, Jewish life, The Holocaust, antisemitism For the district of Vienna, see Leopoldstadt. This article is about the Tom Stoppard play. ![]()
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