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Reverberation
By the author of The Inheritance, a beautiful new play about loneliness and desire in the city.
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Summary
You don’t have to tell me everything at once. Just tell me a little bit. And then a little bit more. And you could just keep telling me until eventually I’d know you.
After a tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, curtailing his social life to brief encounters with men he meets online. When free spirit Claire moves into the flat upstairs, she tries to coax him out of his shell. Drawn together by their desire for emotional attachment, they form a connection, but the happiness they find is threatened as the past reverberates.
Matthew López’s funny, sexy play about loneliness and longing was first performed at Hartford Stage, Connecticut, in 2015. It received its European premiere, in this reshaped version, at the Bristol Old Vic in October 2024.
Critic Reviews
López has another theatrical triumph on his hands. His aptitude for earnest, humane writing [takes] root, and allows for a forensic exploration of how lonely lives interact in the big city . . . It’s as if we are seeing real life truly play out on stage, and there is nothing to do but sit back and fall under the work’s spell.
Critic Reviews
An exquisite dissection of urban loneliness . . . brave and dark . . . [A] rude, beautiful play.
Critic Reviews
López proved with The Inheritance that he is a worthy successor to Tony Kushner and though this is a work more in miniature, it still has that richness of tone and thought that only a master craftsman can shape.
Critic Reviews
Eloquent on the loneliness of hook-up culture and urban gay life.
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The realism in López’s script lends the play a grounded authenticity, creating an almost hypnotically voyeuristic view into a broken man’s life. A haunting reflection on isolation, memory, and the quiet echoes of lives intertwined yet fundamentally alone.
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López’s writing is exquisite.
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Matthew López is the author of The Inheritance, which premiered in 2018 at the Young Vic before transferring to the West End and Broadway. Matthew won the Tony, Olivier, Evening Standard, Drama Desk, London Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and GLAAD Awards for Best Play for The Inheritance. His play The Sentinels premiered in London in 2011 as…
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