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Following its sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's masterpiece The Years is coming to the West End for a strictly-limited 12-week run.
Ernaux's memoir shone a light on French society from just after World War II to the early 2000s, by focusing on one woman's memories and impressions of the past and present in a rapidly-changing world.
Her camera shutter clicked on a child playing in the debris of the Second World War... a student discovering parties and men’s bodies... a wife picking out a velvet sofa and taking her eldest to judo... click click click. A lover seducing a younger man... click. And a grandmother presenting her granddaughter to the camera... click.
"Memory never stops. It pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.;
What the theatre critics say...
The Guardian: ★★★★★ "A masterpiece. Extraordinarily profound and yet playful drama"; The Independent: ★★★★★ "A unique, profoundly moving experience. It moved me in ways theatre often tries to but rarely achieves"
The Years Cast & Creatives
Director: Eline Arbo; Written by: Annie Ernaux, Eline Arbo, Stephanie Bain; Cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra, Harmony Rose-Bremner
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