2 October – 2 November

From Matthew López, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning writer of The Inheritance, comes the sexy, funny, and hauntingly human Reverberation.

After a personal tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, with little social life beyond the men he meets online. When the enigmatic free spirit Claire moves into the flat upstairs, she tries to coax him out of his shell. Drawn together by a mutual need for emotional attachment, they form a connection, but the past eventually reverberates into the present, threatening the happiness they’ve found…

Matthew López’s extraordinary play about loneliness and longing was originally staged in Connecticut in 2015. This brand-new production has been reshaped by López, transposing the action across the Atlantic to London, and will be the play’s European premiere.

Rising theatre director Jack Sain directs a stellar cast comprising Eleanor Tomlinson (One Day, Netflix; Poldark and The Outlaws, BBC) as Claire, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Choir Boy; CABARET, West End) as Jonathan, and recent graduate Jack Gibson as Wes.

Ti Green (Touching the Void) makes a welcome return to Bristol Old Vic to design, alongside sound designer Nicola T. Chang (For Black Boys…, West End), lighting designer Robbie Butler (The Glass Menagerie, UK Tour), video designer Daniel Denton (Misty, Bush Theatre and Trafalgar Studios), and intimacy co-ordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt (Red, White & Royal Blue, Amazon Prime).

7.30pm/2.30pm (Thu & Sat mat)

Venue: Main Theatre

Box Office 0117 987 7877

This show contains scenes of sexual intimacy, full frontal nudity, very strong language, references to homophobia and a description of a violent attack.

Photo credit: Michael Wharley