Eline Arbo’s five-star, “unmissable” (The Daily Telegraph) THE YEARS continues its captivating West End run.
Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s groundbreaking masterpiece, THE YEARS is an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly-changing world.
Writer, mother, student, activist, wife, daughter, lover, grandmother… each vivid version of Annie is told through a series of snapshots. Weaving together memory and history, an ordinary life is marked by a changing body and a changing society, revealing a “remarkable picture of womanhood over the 20th century” (Daily Mail). With “so much emotional depth, surprise and theatrical virtuosity” (The Guardian) The Years “moves you in ways theatre often tries to but rarely achieves” (The Independent).
Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee, Tuppence Middleton, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner deliver “an acting masterclass” (The Times), their performances “glorious and continually unexpected” (The Observer).
Don’t miss your chance to see this provocative, visceral production, playing for a strictly limited run at Harold Pinter Theatre until 19 April 2025.
Book THE YEARS theatre tickets with LOVEtheatre today!
*Please note that this production contains graphic depictions of abortion, blood, a coerced sexual encounter and sexual content. The production includes the use of e-cigarettes, haze and flashing lights.
‘Memory never stops. It pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.’
She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks: a child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men’s bodies. Click. An activist fighting for the right to choose. Click. A wife picking out a velvet sofa. Click. A mother taking her eldest to judo. Click. A lover seducing a younger man. Click. A grandmother presenting her granddaughter to the camera. Click.
Tickets available for performances from Friday 24th January – Saturday 19th April 2025
1 hour 55 minutes, no interval.
Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra, Harmony Rose-Bremner
Eline Arbo (Director and Adapter), Annie Ernaux (Original Book Writer), Thijs van Vuure (Music Supervisor and Sound Designer), Juul Dekker (Set Designer), Rebekka Wörmann (Costume Designer), Varja Klosse (Lighting Designer)
Age Guidance: 15+
'A gorgeous interplay of stagecraft and storytelling'
'Faultless ensemble cast electrify in this dynamic feminist drama'
'Unmissable. Exquisitely mysterious, like life itself'
'An acting masterclass'
