Rhyme, no reason; In a Viennese whirl: Roger Allam (right) as the theatrical impresario Max Reinhardt.

The Daily Mail (London, England) | June 13, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Quentin Letts

Afterlife ( Lyttelton) Verdict: Live life to the Max *** CRUEL criticsmay say that Michael Frayn's new play is an opulent, over-ambitiousextravagance. But if that is the case, then it only matches the life itportrays: that of Max Reinhardt.

Reinhardt was the mid-20thcentury Jewish theatre dynamo who was driven firstfrom Germany, then from Nazified Austria, by anti- Semitism.

Reinhardt staged almost impossibly over-the-top shows, some with casts ofthousands. In his prime, he travelled abroad like an elephant-borne maharajah.

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