Q with Tom Power

Brendan Healy: The Inheritance, learning from the past, and how to stage an epic seven-hour play

04.08.2024 - By CBCPlay

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The Canadian director Brendan Healy has taken on an epic project: a new production of Matthew López's seven-hour play “The Inheritance,” which has been called the most important play of the 21st century. Brendan sits down with Tom to tell us how the play represents a conversation between generations of gay men, what happens when you don't learn about the past, and how that conversation played out in real life at rehearsals.

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