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This production will begin performances on 24 January 2025.

★★★★★ “This Annie Ernaux adaptation is a unique, profoundly moving experience - it moved me in ways theatre often tries to but rarely achieves”

The Independent

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The five-star sold out production of The Years transfers to the West End for 12 weeks only.


Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s fearless masterpiece, five actors create an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly changing world.


“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.


Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner give “‘extraordinary performances’” (The Observer) in Eline Arbo’s inventive adaptation, following sold out runs at the Almeida Theatre and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.


Coming to the West End for a strictly limited 12 week run beginning January 2025.

★★★★★ “A brilliant concept - Annie Ernaux’s book takes on a visceral new life”

Financial Times

ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY ELINE ARBO

BASED ON NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ANNIE ERNAUX’S LES ANNÉES

ENGLISH STAGE VERSION BY STEPHANIE BAIN


The original production and adaptation of The Years was first produced as De Jaren by Het Nationale Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022.

★★★★★ “Extraordinary performances from five actors all playing the writer Annie Ernaux add up to a five-star adaptation of her Nobel prize-winning book”

The Observer

CAST

DEBORAH FINDLAY

ROMOLA GARAI

GINA McKEE

ANJILI MOHINDRA

HARMONY ROSE-BRENNER

CREATIVES

ELINE ARBO Director

THIJS VAN VUUREMusic Supervisor and Sound Designer

JUUL DEKKER Set Designer

REBEKKA WÖRMANN Costume Designer

VARJA KLOSSE Lighting Designer

AMY BALL CDG Casting Director

YASMIN HAFESJI Associate Director

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