National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

Actors:  Aidan McArdle, Faye Castelow, Rhys Bailey, Sebastian Armesto, Arty Froushan, Wesley Holloway Directors:  Patrick Marber

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annex...