A queer play that has divided its audiences as much as the source material divided its readers promises to be one of the most controversial and challenging works in next year’s Adelaide festival.
Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life sold more than 1m copies and was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2015. The Atlantic praised the novel as astonishing, while the London Review of Books slammed it for its grim and relentless exploration of drug addiction, child sexual abuse, sexual violence and self-hatred, asking its readers: “What real person trapped in this novel wouldn’t become a drug addict?”
