Tom Stoppard had already won four Tony Awards during his prolific career as a playwright when he penned what would be his final staged work, dealing with his family’s Holocaust history.

Already in his 80s, Stoppard wrote “Leopoldstadt” to explore a past he said he had thought was not relevant to his life — until he realized that it was. The play, which portrayed a Jewish family grappling with how to respond to rising antisemitic ferment in their native Vienna, won the Tony for best play after it opened on Broadway in 2022.

“I thought that the subject of the Jews through the war had been done and done,” Stoppard told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at the time. “But actually, not really!”

The prize bookended more than five decades of awards for Stoppard, who died Saturday at 88.

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