
Il Signore Degli Anelli - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy I consider that a great gift.The Lord of the Rings - Trilogy - Il Signore Degli Anelli - Trilogia (2001-2003) - Italian English.Ac3.5.1.
Thanks to adaptations like Ivo’s play, the book and its characters are given a much longer life than I originally expected. Maybe I will also see the book differently.

I hope this play will let people see the book in a new light. The stage adaptation of A little life will invite the audience to be humble, attentive and actively involved. The book requires total surrender from the reader. It has to be an interpretation, not a literal translation. And that is exactly what I’m curious about when someone wants to adapt the book to another art form how will they use their medium to tell the story. During our first conversation, he talked about his ideas about how he wants to transport the book to the stage. He saw the book as an allegory of good and evil. ‘Ivo and I talked a lot about A little life. How can you help someone who doesn’t want to be helped, while realizing you’re not a real friend if you don’t try to help? Can friendship provide compensation for the incurred damage? Is it possible to have a romantic relationship without sex? What is love actually able to do? In a constellation like that, intimacy becomes an impossible task. For Jude, openness and surrender are equal to abuse. The closer someone gets, the more difficult it is for him to talk about it. Nevertheless, he finds it impossible to share his past with them. |-How do you live with trauma and pain? Jude has no family, his friends are everything to him. He finds release in compulsive automutilation, causing his body to become more and more exhausted. It has left him with extreme distrust and a feeling of worthlessness. Behind the façade of professional success, he lives with unresolved grief as a result of structural sexual abuse during his childhood. His past is wrapped in a veil of mystery. The main character is the introverted Jude. They develop their careers in the city where ambition and success are the indicators of a successful life: New York. The story is the history of their friendship, as they remain closely connected with each other during the rest of their lives. In A little life, we watch four men over a period of more than thirty years: lawyer Jude, actor Willem, visual artist JB and architect Malcolm.
