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Tom Stoppard s LEOPOLDSTADT Returns to the West End in August 2021
Tom Stoppard s Leopoldstadt, directed by Patrick Marber and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, will return to Wyndham s Theatre for a 12-week run from 7 August - 30 October 2021. Casting will be announced shortly.
Patrons whose bookings were affected by the Government s previous directives will be contacted from today Friday 23 April 2021 regarding their current bookings with public booking opening at 10am on Friday 30 April 2021.
Sonia Friedman said: I am deeply relieved that after a year of immense loss and struggle for so many, including the unthinkable shutdown of our theatre industry, to announce the new dates for the return of Tom s astonishing play to the West End. Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of enduring love and familial bonds that asks us to bear witness to our pasts, no matter how painful that may be. The audience response throughout our seven weeks of sold-out performances before the pande
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The production will reopen at Wyndham’s Theatre on 7 August and run to 30 October 2021.
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Tickets will go on sale from 30 April after current ticket holders are given an opportunity to rebook.
A synopsis of the play shares: “At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann’s extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama.
Cast of
Tom Stoppardâs Olivier-winning
Leopoldstadt, which made its world premiere in January 2020 and played its final performance March 14 last year due to the pandemic, will return to London s Wyndhamâs Theatre August 7.
Directed by Patrick Marber and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, the 12-week West End run will continue through October 30. Casting will be announced at a later date.
Leopoldstadt reunites Stoppard, director Patrick Marber (
Closer, Notes on a Scandal) and Friedman, who last collaborated on
Travesties in 2017. Set over several decades in Vienna, Austria, following the lives of a singular extended family, the play explores the human condition and its resilience in the face of traumatic history before and after World War II.