Reverberation
By (Author) Matthew Lopez
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
4th February 2025
10th October 2024
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)
Paperback
96
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
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After a tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, curtailing his social life to brief encounters with men he meets online.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 Lpez'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.
Matthew Lpez 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 part of Headlong Theatre's Decade plays. Other plays include The Whipping Man, Somewhere, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and Zoey's Perfect Wedding. In 2023. Matthew co-wrote and directed the film adaptation of Red, White and Royal Blue.