"There is an absurdity to the bleakness of 'A Little Life,' a sense that real life only rarely reaches such abominable depths. It’s a mechanism of great tragedy that it offers such cold comfort."
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" 'A Little Life' onstage makes it all the more obvious that this plot is really a Passion Play... It’s a sacrificial story for a time without God."
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"There’s something gruesome and ungainly about 'A Little Life' in any medium; van Hove’s treatment of it as the tragedy it is makes it undeniable, too."
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"As in the book, the extremity and the frequency of the violence does pile up and tumble over through the end of the play, reducing the hours before to a feeling that they were just one fucking thing after another."
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