Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia. His screen credits include Parade's End, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, Empire of the Sun, and Anna Karenina.
Praise for Leopoldstadt: Winner of the Tony Award for Best
PlayWinner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best
Foreign Play"Polished to a burnished sheen by the director Patrick
Marber . . . Feels like an act of personal reckoning for its
creator-with who he is and what he comes from . . . A group
portrait, and one of uncommon density . . . Stoppard's most topical
play . . . Here, recollection is a laser, a tool to be focused on a
past teeming with harsh and essential lessons for the
present."--Ben Brantley, New York Times (Critic's Pick)"A story of
devotion wrapped in doom . . . Through his gallery of characters,
Stoppard refracts something searingly vivid about the indelible
truth of one's roots, about the erasures time and circumstances and
neglect impose on memory, about the guilt that attends the survival
of a genocide . . . Stoppard's words contribute another poetic
verse to a long and tragic elegy."--Peter Marks, Washington
Post"[A] great and powerful production."--Chloe Schama,
Vogue"Breathtaking . . . A play that asks what we owe our own
imperfect memories . . . An epic, formatively brilliant
work."--Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune"A moving, humane
tale."--Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly"Simultaneously
sprawling and intimate."--Michael Musto, The Village Voice
"A lasting gift of remembrance in the brilliant, gorgeous, and
devastating new play Leopoldstadt . . . Full of digressions and
discussions and dialogue as funny as it is poignant."--Greg Evans,
Deadline
"The fulfillment of a lifetime's theatrical journey."--Michael
Billington, Guardian"[Stoppard's] most personal work ever, one
which uses a slow excavation of his own Jewish history to create an
epic family saga, examining--among many other themes--what it means
to be Jewish . . . A summation of sorts."--Sarah Crompton, Vogue"An
entirely gripping piece of theater . . . A revelation for those who
are unfamiliar with its tragic tale, and it will provide a
deepening understanding of the causes and consequences of Jewish
hope and nostalgia in the face of the Holocaust for those who are .
. . Streaked with melancholy but also with the characteristic
Stoppard humor and skepticism."--Daphne Merkin, Air
Mail"[Stoppard's] most personal play yet."--Times (UK)
"The news that Tom Stoppard has written a new drama ranks as
top-end seismic activity."--Telegraph
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