Arts theatre, London
An over-the-top paean to stage ambition ends up in thrall to the world it tries to parody
Camp, says one of the gay men in Matthew Lopez’s new play, The Inheritance, is like a degrading form of minstrelsy. That remark echoed in my mind while watching this 25-year-old off-Broadway musical with a score by Marvin Laird and book and lyrics by Joel Paley.
It offers two hours of unrelieved camp that, by the end, had me longing for some other business than show business.
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