If theatre fans are missing the lights of Broadway and the West End, they need only attend the monthly Culture at the Cinema event at Camana Bay Cinema.
On Saturday, 19 March, a new play by Tom Stoppard – ‘Leopoldstadt’ – will be screening only once with doors opening at 7pm and the show at 8pm. This is a recording of the live performance in London, UK, giving audience members the full theatre experience from the best seat in the house.
Plot
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.
Reviews
Directed by Patrick Marber, ‘Leopoldstadt’ was dubbed a “magnificent masterpiece” by the Independent, and “an intimate epic” by Variety. The Guardian says that “the off-stage action has a searing effect’, while Time Out states it is a “weighty and moving drama”.
Tickets are $40 per person and only 18-and-older will be admitted. Tickets include a glass of bubbly and there is a licensed bar on the premises. Buy online here.
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