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Reverberation

Matthew López

By the author of The Inheritance, a beautiful new play about loneliness and desire in the city.

Format
Ebook
ISBN
9780571394791
Date Published
31.10.2024

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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After a tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, curtailing his social life to brief encounters with men he meets online.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.

Daily Telegraph

Critic Reviews

An exquisite dissection of urban loneliness . . . brave and dark . . . [A] rude, beautiful play.

The Times

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.

WhatsOnStage

Critic Reviews

Eloquent on the loneliness of hook-up culture and urban gay life.

The Stage

Critic Reviews

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.

Stage Talk

Critic Reviews

López’s writing is exquisite.

All That Dazzles

MatthewLópez

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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