The Inheritance

The Inheritance, Young Vic, 2018.

Cast: Hugo Bolton, Robert Boulter, Andrew Burnap, Hubert Burton, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H Levine, Syrus Lowe, Michael Marcus, Vanessa Redgrave, Kyle Soller, Luke Thallon, Michael Walters.

Writer: Matthew Lopez

Director: Stephen Daldry

Somehow it doesn't feel right that something which made so much of an impact on me has such a thin programme. This was my first visit to the Young Vic, which I really liked as a theatre and would definitely go back to. It's a play in two parts and we saw both on the same Saturday, a long day with a quick dinner between the two, which left me feeling hugely satisfied. As much as I might wish everything was 90 minutes long with no interval there are times when the work is so good that you can do this with it. I didn't see it when it transferred to the West End as I didn't think the staging would work in an old theatre and the seats wouldn't be comfortable enough to get through it. Stupidly I'd forgotten that Vanessa Redgrave was in it.