Then, we move again to 1938 and the most wrenching scene. The locations and intended audiences of theaters had been a major issue in Vienna since the middle of the century, when the demolition of the old city walls. This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last. Set in Vienna, Leopoldstadt takes its title from the Jewish quarter. It’s this character’s tragic journey toward recognizing his own naïveté that is the first major plot line – one involving Arthur Schnitzler’s scandalous play La Ronde, a portrait of Gretl painted by Gustav Klimt (anyone who follows art-world news will definitely guess what happens to it), and an affair that is a double betrayal.Īfter a jump in time to 1924, the next generation of this Jewish family takes the stage at a bris that goes comically awry – and we see how the Great War, Bolshevism and Zionism have led to new debates and divisions among them. Previews will begin September 14 ahead of an October 2 opening. Now, he’s gaining admittance into social circles and clubs previously off-limits to Jews. Merz has married a Catholic named Gretl (Faye Castelow) and converted. The 19th-century summer stage called the Thaliatheater was also managed by the. ![]() Joan Marcus/HandoutĮventually, the opening scene pares down to an argument between Ludwig Jacobovicz (Brandon Uranowitz), a mathematician excluded from tenure who is compelled by Theodor Herzl’s vision of a Jewish state, and his brother-in-law Hermann Merz (the excellent David Krumholtz), a businessman who fully believes in a future where Jews become more and more assimilated. The Theater in der Leopoldstadt (also: Leopoldstdter Theater) was an opera house in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna, founded in 1781 by Karl von Marinelli, following the Schauspielfreiheit (ending of the court's monopoly on entertainment) by Joseph II in 1776. Leopoldstadt takes place in Vienna, and follows several generations of a Jewish family from a time of prosperity during a relative lull in antisemitism in 1899 though to the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany and Kristallnacht in 1938.
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