James Norton is astonishing in A Little Life – the most gruelling play I’ve ever seen

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James Norton is astonishing in A Little Life – the most gruelling play I’ve ever seen
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★★★★ This is without doubt the most gruelling piece of theatre I can recall seeing. Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s novel is unrelenting but magnificent 🖊️ FionaLondonarts

an artist and Malcolm an architect. The glue that binds the quartet so strongly, however, is the emotionally elusive lawyer Jude , about whose mysterious past the friends know nothing.

This sinuous adaptation by van Hove, Yanagihara and Koen Tachelet blends the forward momentum of Jude’s seemingly unstoppable self-destruction with scenes from his traumatic past. Norton, wearing a white shirt that is increasingly drenched with blood, makes Jude a fascinating combination of empty vessel – he learned as a child that the path of least resistance was to satisfy the desire of others – and damaged man beset by shame and guilt. The deepening intimacy between him and Willem is tender but painful, as Jude’s layers of self-protection are stripped away.

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