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“The most important American play of the century.” Daily Telegraph
Inspired by E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation’s responsibilities may be to the next.
Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance premiered at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in 2018, before transferring to the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre. It premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2019.
This edition includes revisions made for the Broadway production.
Faber has been publishing playscripts for nearly seventy years, all the way back to John Osborne’s classic play Look Back …