Stoppard, Tom. Leopoldstadt (a play). 114 pages. Pub: 2020. (Elsie)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. By the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany.”Amazon
** Members: This is a different format for our group. There are numerous characters and I found keeping a copy of the characters next to me while reading helped keep them all straight. I recommend reading it at least twice. Stoppard has written a saga of a play about an important time in history with rich characterizations.
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