MacDermid effectively uses simple staging in terms of lights, costumes and props to keep the focus on López’s prose - sometimes wandering, occasionally messy, with periodic detours into debate, but always delivered with the joy, heart and truth of life. “Who are we, and who will we become?” Eric asks. As the book unfolds, the men positioned alongside the square-platform stage tell the tale through dialogue, narration and literary device. That leads to an actual appearance by Forster, portrayed by Thomas Muniz with a winning no-nonsense sympathy, as writing coach. Forster’s “Howard’s End,” opens with a young gay man wanting to write a book about his friends and lovers. The play, which is loosely inspired by E.M. As romantic Eric, Ben Gaetanos wears his heart on his sleeve in “The Inheritance,” onstage in an Ensemble Company production.
With a magic only found in the best theater, you have both a glorious meditation on what we owe to past generations and why - or whether - a culture should be maintained, as well as a heartfelt story of finding love, losing love and finding it again.īoth aspects of “The Inheritance” succeed here, with poignant and memorable performances alongside the power of López’s words. Matthew López’s high-concept play feels like an epic - and it is - but the Ensemble Company’s production, directed with appealingly straightforward simplicity by Matthew MacDermid, makes it refreshingly human. It’s a cliffhanger because there’s more to come: “The Inheritance” is presented in two parts, and the Ensemble Company in Oviedo opened the first half on Friday night (the second half opens Sept. “The Inheritance,” the Tony award-winning best play of 2020, makes its Central Florida debut with a beautifully intimate production that engrosses from the opening scene to its closing cliffhanger.
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