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An epic bore: A Little Life, at the Harold Pinter Theatre, reviewed

Plus: a lesson on how to tell a story at Marylebone Theatre

A night of crying, yelling, beating and bleeding: Luke Thompson (Willem) and James Norton (Jude) in A Little Life. Image: Jan Versweyveld  
issue 15 April 2023

A Little Life, based on Hanya Yanagihara’s novel, is set in a New York apartment shared by four mega-successful yuppies: an architect, a fine artist, a film star and a Wall Street attorney, Jude, played by James Norton. A friendly doctor tags along occasionally and an older lawyer, in his sixties, joins the gang after legally adopting Jude.

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