The international hit The Inheritance by the contemporary American dramatist Matthew López, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2019 and the Tony for Best Play in 2020, now gets its Greek premiere.
Inspired by E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End, López borrows elements from the novel by the homosexual English writer and reimagines it to tell the story of a group of gay men in New York in the late 2010s. Along with them, he has Forster himself appear on stage, helping the characters to tell their story. In fact, there are three generations implicated in the action: the one that came of age in the early 20th century, the later cohort of the 1980s, which grew up amidst the AIDS epidemic, and the men of today.
The play speaks with disarming honesty about gay lives, while at the same time exploring themes that concern us all, such as love, loss, family, identity, individual responsibility, the sense of belonging, the preservation of historical memory, but also the deep need we all have to love and be loved. López thus addresses not only a gay audience, but everyone, regardless of gender and sexual orientation, in a humane, moving, yet political work that is brought to the stage in a superbly cast production bearing the characteristic directorial stamp of Yannis Moschos.
The play will be performed in two parts, which can be seen either on separate days or in a single performance on Sundays.
Credits:
Translation-Direction: Yannis Moschos
Sets: Tina Tzoka
Costumes: Vana Giannoula
Music: Thodoris Economou
Movement: Anthi Theofilidi
Video design: Nikos Pastras
Lighting: Christina Thanasoula
Dramaturg: Eri Kyrgia
Assistant Director: Thomaïs Triantafyllidou
Assistant set designer: Thaumont Triantafyllis Triantafyllis and Thaumatura Tamboula
Assistant costume designer: Alexandros Garnavos
Cast (in alphabetical order): George Ziakas, Alkiviadis Mangonas, George Makris, Stephanos Moagier, Kostas Berikopoulos, Angelos Bouras, Kostas Nikouli, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Themis Panou, Thanasis Raftopoulos, Alexandra Sakellaropoulou, George Christodoulou
*There will be no performances 16 to 20 April 2025.
*Every Sunday from 02 March performances with English subtitles.
