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National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt (2022)
Directed by Patrick Marber
Overview
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, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Aidan McArdle | Faye Castelow | Rhys Bailey | Sebastian Armesto | Arty Froushan | Wesley Holloway | Joshua Satine | Aaron Shuf | Oliver Kohn | Mace Phoenix | Aaron Neil | Eleanor Wyld | Jenna Augen | Mark Edel-Hunt | Edie Newman | Ilan Galkoff