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‘IF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW PLAYS WAS MEASURED ACCORDING TO THE RICHTER SCALE, THE NEWS THAT TOM STOPPARD HAS WRITTEN A NEW DRAMA – LEOPOLDSTADT – WOULD RANK AS TOP-END SEISMIC ACTIVITY.’ The Telegraph

ABOUT THE PLAY new play, directed by Patrick Marber, are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, is an intimate and passionate drama Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Vienna in 1899 was the most vibrant city with an epic sweep that explores love, Deserves Favour, The Real Thing, in Europe, buzzing with music, ideas and family and endurance. It is Stoppard’s Arcadia, The Invention of Love, intellect; it was a place that the neurologist most humane and heart-breaking play. The Coast of Utopia, Rock ‘n’ Roll and founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund and most recently, The Hard Problem. Freud, artist Gustav Klimt, author and He co-wrote the screenplays for the dramatist Arthur Schnitzler and composer Academy Award-winning Shakespeare Johann Strauss (to name but a few) were in Love, and the Academy Award proud to call home. A tenth of the population nominated Brazil. of Vienna were Jews. A generation earlier Jewish people had been granted full – Patrick Marber’s directing credits civil rights by the Emperor of Austria, of his own work include Exit the Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of King, Howard Katz, Three Days in the thousands of Jews had fled to Vienna from Country (National Theatre), Dealer’s the Pale and the pogroms in the East. Choice (National Theatre and West In December 1899, two intermarried End), Olivier Award-winning Closer Jewish families gather in an apartment off (National Theatre, West End and the Ringstrasse, Vienna. They are a family Music Box, New York), Don Juan who have made good, assimilating into THEMES in Soho (Wyndham’s Theatre) and the upper echelons of Viennese society After Miss Julie (BBC TV). His other Themes of the show include: with some of the second generation directing credits include The Room as Religion, World Wars I & II, family, having married gentiles. part of the Pinter at the Pinter Season, love, endurance, art, heritage, culture, “My grandfather wore a caftan,” says Venus In Fur at the Theatre Royal oppression, interfaith marriages, tradition, Hermann, a factory owner. “My father Haymarket, Travesties at the Menier music, memory, assimilation, industry, went to the opera in a top hat, and I have Chocolate Factory, Apollo Theatre and family business, politics, cultural identity, the singers to dinner.” The American Airlines Theater, New anti-Semitism, mathematics. York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award® for Best Director. He ‘IT IS A BEAUTIFUL, EPIC, SUBJECT & CURRICULUM is also an award-winning screenwriter SWEEPING PLAY. IT’S A LINKS and his film credits include Closer and REMARKABLE PLAY, GCSE & A Level History Notes on a Scandal. • World War I IT’S A PERSONAL PLAY.’ • Analysis and evaluation of the work of • World War II live theatre makers Sonia Friedman, Producer • Holocaust & Kristallnacht • Historical fiction • Europe at the turn of the century Many of them believed the persecution • Assimilation GCSE & A Level Religious Studies of the Jews was a thing of the past. • Significant artists, writers, musicians, • Judaism Half a century later, this family, like philosophers at the start of the 1900s: • Jewish custom and tradition millions of others, has re-discovered what – Gustav Klimt • Catholicism it means to be Jewish in the first half of – Karl Marx the 20th century. Familial events, loves – Sigmund Freud GCSE & A Level Mathematics • Bernhard Riemann as a historical character and losses play out against the backdrop – Bernhard Riemann • The Riemann Hypothesis – arguably the of burgeoning anti-Semitism, the rise of – Johann Strauss most important unsolved problem in the Nazis and eventually the Anschluss – Arthur Schnitzler Pure mathematics in 1938. Leading up to 1942, persecution • European and world politics • Cat’s Cradle calculus of the Jewish population intensified and • Pure mathematics over 140,000 Jews fled Vienna, while GCSE & A Level English / Drama Leopoldstadt, a district of the city, became • Hugely significant creative team a ghetto where Jewish people were sent including: EDUCATION RATE and grouped together before being – Tom Stoppard is widely considered to 10+ deported to the concentration camps. be the world’s greatest living dramatist. £22.50 per ticket for Monday - Thursday By 1945, over 65,000 Austrian Jews Stoppard’s multi-award-winning work performances, plus 1 free teacher per had been moved to the camps, and only includes three Tony Awards® for 10 students booked (valid on Band B 800 Viennese Jews survived the war. Best Play and two Olivier Awards and C tickets) Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living (for Best New Comedy and Best New From 25 January 2020 playwright’ (The Times), Tom Stoppard’s Play): Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Wyndham’s Theatre, London