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Across seven acts set in late nineteenth-century Vienna, the shallow, immature playboy Anatol cycles through relationships with women while evading intimacy and commitment. His friend Max observes and sometimes intervenes as Anatol's self-image and control over his relationships erode.
In 1890s Vienna, Fritz begins an affair with seamstress Christine after an upper-class lover leaves him, but a duel challenge from her husband makes the relationship a final romance. Stoppard moves the ending backstage at the opera, where Christine learns Fritz has died.
After his wife Eveline dies, Professor Robert Pilgram plans to bury himself in academic work. Conversations with his neighbor Olga and his friend Alfred reveal that he misunderstood Eveline's relationships and kept her lonely. Learning that Olga had concealed the truth from him as well, Robert leaves the summer resort.
Ten linked scenes pass from one pair of lovers to the next, forming a circle of secret sexual encounters across social classes. The work examines sexual morality and class ideology in 1890s Vienna.
Fritz, involved with a married woman, is challenged to a duel by her husband. His friend Theodor introduces him to Christine, who falls in love with him. After Fritz fails to meet her, then appears to have recovered from his affair, the two plan a trip that is actually a cover for the duel. Christine later learns from Theodor, her father and Mizi that Fritz died; the ending leaves open whether she kills herself.
Jewish physician Professor Bernhardi bars a priest from giving last rites to a dying patient, hoping to spare her fear. The ensuing public outcry and trial expose antisemitism and conflicts over religion, professional duty, and Austrian-Jewish identity.
This all-male adaptation reshapes La Ronde as ten linked encounters among a sex worker, sailor, gardener, young gentleman, professor, partner, teenager, playwright, actor, and movie producer.
On 14 July 1789, actors at a Paris tavern called the Green Cockatoo entertain aristocratic customers by pretending to be violent criminals. When the real turmoil of the French Revolution enters the tavern, the line between their performance and reality becomes increasingly uncertain.
Stoppard adapts Schnitzler’s portrait of 1890s Viennese society, showing how upper-class codes of conduct shape human relationships through the charming, chauvinistic businessman Friedrich Hofreiter; the adaptation adds humor and reduces melodrama.
Set in Vienna during 1809, the historical drama follows Medardus Klähr, whose sister's death and conflict with the Valois family draw him into a doomed struggle involving Napoleon and Helene of Valois.
Across seven acts set in late nineteenth-century Vienna, the shallow, immature playboy Anatol cycles through relationships with women while evading intimacy and commitment. His friend Max observes and sometimes intervenes as Anatol's self-image and control over his relationships erode.
In 1890s Vienna, Fritz begins an affair with seamstress Christine after an upper-class lover leaves him, but a duel challenge from her husband makes the relationship a final romance. Stoppard moves the ending backstage at the opera, where Christine learns Fritz has died.
After his wife Eveline dies, Professor Robert Pilgram plans to bury himself in academic work. Conversations with his neighbor Olga and his friend Alfred reveal that he misunderstood Eveline's relationships and kept her lonely. Learning that Olga had concealed the truth from him as well, Robert leaves the summer resort.
Ten linked scenes pass from one pair of lovers to the next, forming a circle of secret sexual encounters across social classes. The work examines sexual morality and class ideology in 1890s Vienna.
Fritz, involved with a married woman, is challenged to a duel by her husband. His friend Theodor introduces him to Christine, who falls in love with him. After Fritz fails to meet her, then appears to have recovered from his affair, the two plan a trip that is actually a cover for the duel. Christine later learns from Theodor, her father and Mizi that Fritz died; the ending leaves open whether she kills herself.
Jewish physician Professor Bernhardi bars a priest from giving last rites to a dying patient, hoping to spare her fear. The ensuing public outcry and trial expose antisemitism and conflicts over religion, professional duty, and Austrian-Jewish identity.
This all-male adaptation reshapes La Ronde as ten linked encounters among a sex worker, sailor, gardener, young gentleman, professor, partner, teenager, playwright, actor, and movie producer.
On 14 July 1789, actors at a Paris tavern called the Green Cockatoo entertain aristocratic customers by pretending to be violent criminals. When the real turmoil of the French Revolution enters the tavern, the line between their performance and reality becomes increasingly uncertain.
Stoppard adapts Schnitzler’s portrait of 1890s Viennese society, showing how upper-class codes of conduct shape human relationships through the charming, chauvinistic businessman Friedrich Hofreiter; the adaptation adds humor and reduces melodrama.
Set in Vienna during 1809, the historical drama follows Medardus Klähr, whose sister's death and conflict with the Valois family draw him into a doomed struggle involving Napoleon and Helene of Valois.