A Little Life
A Little Life
Closed 4h 10m NYC: Brooklyn
72% 18 reviews
72%
(18 Ratings)
Positive
67%
Mixed
11%
Negative
22%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Intense, Masterful, Ambitious

Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara's novel, following 4 friends throughout their lives.

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Critic Reviews (4)

The New York Times
October 21st, 2022

"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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New York Magazine / Vulture
October 21st, 2022

" '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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Variety
October 21st, 2022

"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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Exeunt Magazine
October 24th, 2022

"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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