BookMen selections on stage

While in London last October, Robert Muir saw an International Theater Amsterdam adaptation, in association with the Young Vic, of the memoir we'll be discussing on Aug. 2: Edouard Louis's Who Killed My Father. (We discussed Louis's first memoir, The End of Eddy, back in 2017.) You can read Robert's original post about that by putting "Edouard" into the search box above, but let's just say he's a big fan!

Following up on that, Robert was kind enough to note that staged productions of two gay literary works are currently playing at the Soho Place and Savoy theaters, respectively, in London. The first is based on a short story I was sure we'd discussed, Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain--but that is not the case. (Yet.) The other production is based on a novel we have discussed, back in 2018: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life. That one had such high demand that it extended its run and moved from the Harold Pinter Theater to the Savoy. 

One more connection: Ivo van Hove adapted both A Little Life and Who Killed My Father for the stage.