The Abbey Theater hosts this manufacturing based mostly on the novel by Amélie Nothomb
The Abbey Theater welcomes 2026 with the play A lifestyle, theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed novel of the identical title by the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb. The work displays on the monstrosity that lives in ourselves and dialogues about creation, the physique and the necessity of the opposite.
As an EL PAÍS subscriber, you’ll be able to see this manufacturing earlier than anybody else by attending the costume rehearsalwhich is able to happen on Thursday January 8. Or if you happen to desire, you may also get tickets for the efficiency of the Saturday January 10. Choose a date and take part within the contest!
On a lifestyle
“I wish to exist for you,” writes an American soldier deployed within the Iraq warfare in a letter to the Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb. Thus begins an epistolary relationship through which the creator, trapped in her compulsion to answer every reader, immerses herself on the earth of soldier Melvin Mapple, who reveals to her the connection he has along with his physique.
Every warfare has its addictions: in Vietnam many troopers trusted opium to endure the horror, in Iraq weight problems was declared the illness of warfare. Melvin Mapple has gained 100 kilos since his arrival in Baghdad. Every day, upon getting back from the battlefield, he tries to cowl the vacancy inside by devouring enormous quantities of junk meals. The soldier conceives his physique because the territory for his personal creation and is aware of that the creator will perceive it. Melvin’s creation is his personal fats.
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