 about the outcome of the election, their fears that it could roll back their civil rights, and their thoughts and feelings about living through the AIDS crisis. That's the basic premise of a play. It's called The Inheritance, sort of a loose adaptation of a famous novel called Howard's End, written by E.M. Forster. E.M. Forster was an early 20th century novelist who was also gay, but kept it under wraps. The Inheritance is a seven-hour long play.