THE INHERITANCE:

 PART ONE           

VINTAGE THEATRE: APRIL 7 – MAY 14

 

                         L-R: Dakota Chase Hill, Bobby Bennett and Kyle Lawrence

THE INHERITANCE IS AN OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION THAT MUST BE SEEN! 

RUN TO GET TICKETS! 

 

Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance,” is a sprawling two-part opus that uses E.M. Forster’s “Howard’s End” as blueprint. Having won the Olivier for Best Play in London, “The Inheritance” also garnered a 2020 Tony for Best Play on Broadway. 

     Forster’s admonition to “just connect” is key to LGBTQ’s intergenerational reflection on its tragic past and subsequent evolution with its attendant social crises. 

By “connecting,” generations well past the AIDS epidemic begin to become aware of how much their present status and their problems regarding equal rights have been made accessible due to the suffering of those who have gone before.

 The show, which looks at classism, healing, and the need to belong, includes adult situations, male nudity and gay sexual relations along with mature language. 

     Director Bernie Cardell has cast the show with an eye to diverse looks in race and body types. His quick pacing pulses with urgency and makes the evening fly.

     As Toby Darling, a sarcastic, narcissistic, and successful playwright, whose work is on the verge of going to Broadway, Bobby Bennett gives a brilliantly nuanced performance.

      Dakota Chase Hill is superb in the role of Eric Glass, Toby’s naïve lover. 

     Kyle Lawrence is fine as Adam McDowel, a down on his luck sex worker, who’s taken under the wing of Bennett’s Toby Darling. 

     Matthew Murry is Morgan ,a stand-in for E.M. Forster, who provides the voice of reason in the play.

     Todd Black is an indelibly engaging Walter Pool - a frail, endearing neighbor who befriends Eric, making him aware of the secrets of his past. Pool reveals his empathic response to a collective  traumatic past in a poignant and  magnificent monologue.

     Andy Anderson is a splendid Henry Wilcox, Walter’s nearly always away-on-business partner. 

      The rest of the vibrant ensemble functions as a sort of “Greek chorus.”

 

Part One and Part Two of the play may be seen one after the other on some days or else one at a time. Each runs about three hours, and like two-part plays such as “Angels in America” and “The Kentucky Cycle,” each play is ticketed separately.

 

You owe it to yourself to see this brilliant work!

(Leave the kids home.)

303-856-7830 or online at www.vintagetheatre.org

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