Leopold. Stoppard T.

In the family of Hermann Merets, both Catholic Christmas and Jewish Easter are celebrated. A baptized Jew, married to a Catholic, Austrian citizen and a successful businessman, he is the soul of a noisy, friendly and happy family.

We get acquainted with him in the Christmas Eve of 1899, when everyone is full of strength and plans, and Vienna is a center of heated The intellectual and social life of Europe. Together with life -loving, sincerely loving, thinking and sometimes incredibly naive heroes, we have to go through the milestones of recent history - the first and second world war, Anschlus, Holocaust and a bitter sobering of the first post -war years.

more recently, a family saga, masterly inscribed In a dramatic form, read in the past tense, as a finished portrait of the short twentieth century. Today this play by Tom Stoppard, probably one of the most significant modern playwrights, speaks with each of us about our future and the future of the world familiar to us.