THE INHERITANCE
by Matthew López

THE INHERITANCE
by Matthew López
Directed by Yannis Moschos

The first staging of the multi-award-winning play in Greece.
A unique theatrical experience about the need we all have to love and be loved.

From 13 February 2025

The Inheritance, an award-winning play by the American dramatist Matthew López, makes its premiere in Greece on 13 February at the Nikos Kourkoulos Stage of the Ziller Building. Τhe production bears the characteristic directorial stamp of Yannis Moschos, who oversees a multi-generational cast of talented actors. This deeply humane, moving, yet political work is a unique theatrical experience about the need we all have to love and be loved.

The Inheritance is inspired by the novel Howard's End, by the homosexual English writer E.M. Forster, reimagined by López to portray a group of gay men in New York in the late 2010s. Along with them, he has Forster himself appear on stage, helping the characters to tell their story. There are thus three generations implicated in the action: the one that came of age in the early 20th century, the later cohort of the 1980s, which grew up amidst the AIDS epidemic, and the men of today.

In The Inheritance, López speaks with striking honesty about the lives of gay men, exploring themes that resonate with everyone – regardless of gender or sexual orientation – such as love, loss, family, identity, individual responsibility, the sense of belonging, the preservation of historical memory, and – most of all – the right to love. His protagonists are full of contradictions, capable of the pettiest as well as the most generous behaviour, their actions both reasonable and reprehensible, just like anyoneΆs.

The writer never forgets the big picture, and the profound impact of the past and contemporary struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community on the lived experience of his characters. López invites us to reflect on the significance of oneΆs inheritance, the ways in which it defines the present and the future, but also about the personal responsibility we all bear for the history yet to be written.

The Inheritance has been an international hit, winning major awards such as the 2019 Olivier for Best New Play, as well as the Tony for Best Play in 2020, making López the first Latino author to earn this distinction.

Translator and director: Yannis Moschos
Set design: Tina Tzoka
Costume design: Vana Giannoula
Music: Thodoris Economou
Movement: Anthi Theofilidi
Video design: Nikos Pastras
Lighting design: Christina Thanasoula
Production dramaturg: Erie Kyrgia
Directing assistant: Thomais Triantafyllidou
Second directing assistant: Christiana Dimitra
Set design assistant: Kyriaki Forti
Costume design assistant: Alexandros Garnavos
Lighting design assistant: Ifigeneia Gianniou
Hair design: Konstantinos Koliousis
Makeup design: Olga Faleichyk

The cast (in alphabetical order): Kostas Berikopoulos, Angelos Bouras, Giorgos Christodoulou, Alkiviadis Maggonas, Yorgos Makris, Stephanos Mwange, Kostas Nikouli, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Themis Panou, Thanasis Raftopoulos, Alexandra Sakelaropoulou, Giorgos Ziakas

Photographs: Elina Giounanli
Video: Nikos Pastras