‘Torture porn or serious literature?’: the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life

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One million copies sold, sobbing superfans on TikTok and a new stage adaptation starring James Norton – yet Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 book continues to divides readers

by the celebrated Belgian director Ivo van Hove will land on 25 March. When it was first performed in Amsterdam in 2018, the play was four hours long and in Dutch. That version was performed with subtitlesand in New York last year. It has now been condensed somewhat and is in English for the first time, with James Norton, the villain from Happy Valley, playing the tragic central figure, Jude.

A Little Life is the story of four men – Jude, JB, Willem and Malcolm – who meet at university, move to New York, and all have improbably stratospheric careers as, respectively, a lawyer, artist, actor and architect.

, tells me in an email. “Furthermore, we aim to provide enough resources about content and themes to allow potential audience members to make an informed decision about whether this production feels suitable for them before viewing a performance.

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