Dark matter

The simple but effective open-plan layout serves as required as an art gallery, office, or night club and events are eerily accompanied by twin projections of slowly scrolling New York streetscapes, which bookend the stage. At times a hospital bed appears, to which Jude's friends tenderly carry him. In adapting the novel for the stage, writers Koen Tachelet, Ivo van Hove, who is also the play's director, and Yanagihara herself have narrowed its focus.