In this worldwide bestseller, we watch four men over a period of more than thirty years: lawyer Jude, actor Willem, visual artist JB and architect Malcolm. The story is the history of their friendship, as they remain closely connected with each other during the rest of their lives. They develop their careers in the city where ambition and success are the indicators of a successful life: New York.

The main character is the introverted Jude. His past is wrapped in a veil of mystery. Behind the façade of professional success, he lives with unresolved grief as a result of emotional neglect and sexual abuse during his childhood. It has left him with extreme distrust and a feeling of worthlessness. He finds release in compulsive automutilation, causing his body to become more and more exhausted.

How do you live with trauma and pain? Jude has no family, his friends are everything to him. Nevertheless, he finds it impossible to share his past with them. The closer someone gets, the more difficult it is for him to talk about it. For Jude, openness and surrender are equal to abuse. In a constellation like that, intimacy becomes an impossible task. 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?

Jude’s friends are facing a dilemma. 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?

A LITTLE LIFE follows four college friends in New York City: aspiring actor Willem, successful architect Malcolm, struggling artist JB, and prodigious lawyer Jude. As ambition, addiction, and pride threaten to pull the group apart, they always find themselves bound by their love for Jude and the mysteries of his past. But when those secrets come to light, they finally learn that to know Jude St Francis is to understand the limitless potential of love in the face of life.

威廉·莎士比亚笔下最血腥的悲剧是否也能引人发笑？导演约翰·西蒙斯与出色的剧团演员在《麦克白》中试验了这种可能性，并成功奉上了一出精彩的好戏。

战争英雄麦克白携其好友班柯从战场归来。故乡苏格兰的民众热烈迎接他的凯旋，甚至有奇怪生物预言他将成为一国之君。然而，为了登上国王的宝座，光杀一个人是不够的，他的手必须沾满血腥。在妻子的怂恿下，麦克白开启了自己血腥的谋逆之路，直到杀光了除自己以外的所有人。

约翰·西蒙斯将这出创作于1603至1607年间的悲剧《麦克白》理解为喜剧——并由此完成了一次戏剧界的颠覆。Marina Galic、Jens Harzer和Stefan Hunstein演绎了所有角色，他们的精湛表演令这一版《麦克白》成为了一次表演艺术的盛宴。

Slachthuis vijf (Slaughterhouse-five) is often described as an anti-war book, but it is everything mixed up: existential, hilarious, exciting, science fiction and philosophical. Erik Whien brings Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war book to the stage.
Billy Pilgrim is detached from time. The American soldier can step through a door in 1945 and come out somewhere in 1965. Thus, at the end of the Second World War, he relives the horrific bombing of Dresden and, at the same time, he is abducted by aliens and put on display on their planet Tralfamadore. It is there that Billy learns that things cannot happen other than they do. And that all things happen at the same time.

In Slachthuis vijf we see Billy shoot through the past, present and future, through conversations with his daughter Barbara and son Robert. The reality around him slowly falls apart and traumatic events in Billy's life get a new place and meaning.

Director Erik Whien brings Kurt Vonnegut's remarkable masterpiece to the main stage at Theater Rotterdam, with actors Bram Suijker, Hannah Hoekstra and Jip van den Dool. In recent years, Whien has proven that he can bring a book to the stage in an unparalleled way. He has previously made lauded adaptations of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter.