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'I was barricading myself with alcohol': Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage by Ryan Gilbey

He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it In 2008, the playwright Matthew López had a bright idea: to examine the lives of gay male New Yorkers one generation after the advent of Aids by using Howards End as the scaffolding with which to build a new drama. Perhaps EM Forster himse…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM on October 1, 2024

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