“Lopez’s The Inheritance, a two-play, seven-hour work exploring the reverberations of the 1980s AIDS epidemic for a new generation of gay men, is certainly epic…[Lopez] attributes the success of the play to the support offered by Williamson at Hartford Stage.”
--Mark Ravenhill, The Sunday Times
*Nominated for 11 Tony Awards, Including Best Play*
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★★★★★ – The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Evening Standard, Gay Times
★★★★— Guardian, Time Out, The Times, The Independent
“To watch The Inheritance is to pass from engaged but detached interest into a realm of total absorption before arriving at a state of emotionally shattered but elated awe… Star ratings are almost beside the point when confronted by work of this magnitude but hell, yeah, five.”
--The Telegraph
“Stop the clocks; the race is won. Here is the play of this year and last year and quite possibly next year as well.”
--The Evening Standard
“pierces your emotional defences, raises any number of political issues and enfolds you in its narrative.”
--The Guardian
THE INHERITANCE
World Premiere by Matthew López
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Young Vic/West End
Designer Bob Crowley
Lighting Jon Clark
Sound Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid
Music Paul Englishby
Associate Director Justin Martin
Dramaturg Elizabeth Williamson
The Inheritance UK cast featured Hugo Bolton, Robert Boulter, Andrew Burnap, Hubert Burton, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, Syrus Lowe, Michael Marcus, Jack Riddiford, Kyle Soller, Michael Walters and Vanessa Redgrave.
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