Sir Tom Stoppard’s most Jewish play, Leopoldstadt, was chosen as best new play in the Olivier Awards for London on Sunday night.
Featuring four generations of a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna in the first half of the 20th century, it opened in the West End earlier this year a month before lockdown.
While it presents a central European Jewish milieu, the playwright said it was “not autographical”.
“It’s a lot to do with being Jewish, knowing you are Jewish, acknowledging you are Jewish, acting like you are Jewish... or no,” he said in a JC interview.
Trevor Nunn’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, which ended its West End last November, was judged best musical revival.
Veteran lyricist Don Black received a special award for his contribution over six decades.
