Critically acclaimed sell-out Almeida Theatre production THE YEARS to transfer to West End
Photo credit: Phil Fisk
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new Artistic Director Eline Arbo returns to direct her five-star, sold out adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel The Years. Having run to critical acclaim at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and at the Almeida Theatre from August - September 2024, it will now transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre from 24 January – 19 April 2025.
Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai*, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner reprise their performances playing one woman in this mesmerising, personal and political story, set against the backdrop of our 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.
The creative team includes music supervisor and sound designer Thijs van Vuure, set designer Juul Dekker, costume designer Rebekka Wörmann, lighting designer Varja Klosse, and casting director Amy Ball CDG.
*Romola Garai will be in performances of The Years until 8 March. Further casting will be announced at a later date.