Richard Harmrin appears in Arv at Dramaten

The 14th of September sees Swedish baritone Richard Hamrin taking to the theatrical stage at Stockholm’s Dramaten (The Royal Swedish Theatre). He plays the role of Jasper, Young Man 7 in Matthew Lopez The Inheritance (“Arv” in Swedish), an epic 8 hour play charting the lives of a group of homosexual men in New York.

From Wikipedia:

The play is staged in two parts of over three hours each, intended to be viewed sequentially and reimagines E. M. Forster's Howards End as "a lovingly wry portrait of New York’s gay community", "with gay men from different generations standing in for Forster’s straight people from different classes". Lopez found parallels between his own life and Forster's closeted existence before the partial-decriminalisation of homosexuality, telling The New Yorker: "We’re so far apart, and yet when I read his diaries—that’s me. That’s me, a hundred years ago, as a closeted white man in England". Lopez has described that the greatest theatrical influence, despite comparisons with Tony Kushner's Angels in America as being Gatz, Elevator Repair Service's 2-part, 8-hour adaptation of The Great Gatsby, inspiring his use of "self-narration".

The Inheritance examines love between gay men in contemporary New York a generation after the Early AIDS Crisis. It asks what the current generation owes to its forebears[with Rebecca Read writing in The New Yorker that lead character Eric Glass, "as the grandson of Holocaust survivors, has a personal connection to generational catastrophe, and is therefore better primed to comprehend the history of the gay community’s devastation".

Richard Hamrin, who is a multi-faceted artist, refusing to be tied down to one artform only, was most recently seen playing Filippo in Läckö Slott’s production of Rossini’s La Gazzetta.

Read more about Dramaten’s production on https://www.dramaten.se/repertoar/arv