Reviewer Freya Parr finds Reverberation to be a moving and modern tale of digital connections and facing the past.
It was the debut of his play The Inheritance at the Young Vic in 2018 that launched Matthew López into the stratosphere. The loose adaptation of EM Forster's novel Howard's End wrestled with the concept of what it means to be a gay man today, several decades on from the AIDS crisis. After its Young Vic debut, it transferred to Broadway and quickly won just about every award going.
Reverberation hit the stage several years earlier, making its debut in Connecticut in 2015. Nine years later, Bristol Old Vic is hosting the European premiere of Reverberation – with the action now transferred to a block of flats in Tottenham, rather than the original New York apartment building.
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