One house, three lives, many echoes: in Matthew Lopez's play Resonances, the Lucerne Theater allows its characters to resonate with each other in a confined space with a large emotional surface - a chamber play about closeness, loneliness and the longing to be heard.
Clip-clop, clip-clop. Claire is afraid Jonathan might hear her high heels. She lives directly above Jonathan and has only just moved in. Now they are neighbors and get to know each other through their living habits. Audible and tangible. Claire is stylish and adventurous, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world. And then there's young Wes, who Jonathan has had sex with and now can't get rid of.
On and between two floors, people meet whose lives "resonate" in very different ways. All three are great romantics in their own way. With major and minor injuries. Their own four walls offer protection from what life means out there. And it is precisely there, in their need to feel safe and to belong, that they each find and recognize themselves.
A play full of contradictions: charming and hard, comforting and frightening. The American author Matthew Lopez gets to the heart of today's attitude to life, describing and analyzing without providing prescriptions. His plays are performed and awarded internationally. The Lucerne Theater was able to secure the exclusive German-language premiere of "Resonances".
Premiere January 17
Further performances: January 22, 25 and 28, February 5 and 7, March 15, April 26, May 2, 8 and 29, June 12 and 20, 2026
