‘As a culture, we’re scared of the penis’: Happy Valley’s James Norton on baring all in A Little Life

As Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘trauma porn’ novel hits the stage, cast members Norton, Omari Douglas, Luke Thompson and Zach Wyatt get set to shock

As Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘trauma porn’ novel hits the stage, cast members Norton, Omari Douglas, Luke Thompson and Zach Wyatt get set to shock If ever a play called for trigger warnings, it’s the adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. Nudity, violence, sexual and emotional abuse, self-harm... you name it, it’s there between the covers of the American author’s 720-page Booker-shortlisted novel. Ever since it was published in 2015, the book has been dividing readers between those who consider it a masterpiece and those who believe it takes the suffering of its central character to the…

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