Leopoldstadt Condition:Like New And when Sophia's night at

And when Sophia's night at the ball goes horribly wrong

shades and divides

tangled loyalties

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Leopoldstadt Condition:Like New And when Sophia's night atAt the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann's extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war,