National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
A passionate drama of love, family and endurance.
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.
Top Cast

Aidan McArdle
as Hermann
Hermann
Faye Castelow
as Gretl
Gretl

Rhys Bailey
as Young Nathan
Young Nathan
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