Leopoldstadt, yesterday at the Whyndam Theatre in London
Tom Stoppard's play tells the story of a well to do, and well integrated, extended family of Jews in Vienna from 1899 to 1955 (with scenes in 1899, 1900, 1924, 1938, and 1955). The course of history was not kind to Jews and you see the progression of events to inevitable tragedy. We all know the dark pages of European history of that time, yet the terror of the 1938 scene is vividly chilling, even though some of Stoppard's choices have been generous towards the audience. The 1955 scene is a somber account of painful, erased and revived memories of Holocaust survivors and escapees, who reconstruct their family history, as well as the history of the world where absolutely no country looks good in the picture.
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