Borrowing the framework of Forster’s tale, Lopez relocates the action to contemporary New York to explore the lives of an intergenerational group of gay men. Advertisement“The Inheritance,” with Samuel H. Levine, left, Kyle Soller, Kyle Harris, Arturo Luis Loria, Jordan Barbour and Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr. (kneeling). Yet there are moments when the emotion is so genuinely overpowering that the entire audience is stricken into a sobbing unity. They have moved into Eric and Toby’s building, and Eric strikes up an instant friendship with this dying older man. For all its novelistic scope, “The Inheritance” is still a play, and there are only so many gaps in psychology that can be narrated away.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 18, 2019 03:00 UTC