On the Razzle

By Tom Stoppard
Director: Stephen Jameson
Designer: Phil Englehart

Performed by BA (Hons) Acting students

Herr Zangler, owner of an upmarket grocery store in a small Austrian village, plans to marry Mme. Knorr, the proprietor of a women’s clothing shop in Vienna. As he departs for Vienna, Zangler arranges to send his niece Marie to his sister-in-law, Miss Blumenblatt, to prevent her from eloping with the penniless Sonders. He also entrusts the operation of his business to his head clerk, Weinberl, and his naive apprentice, Christopher, who decide to go ‘on the razzle’ in Vienna. By a bizarre coincidence, Zangler, Mme Knorr, the clerks and the eloping couple all find themselves in the same restaurant, and chaos ensues…