Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner play one woman in The Years, Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical novel now playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
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.
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new artistic director Arbo returns to direct her adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Ernaux’s work. Having run at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and at the Almeida Theatre from August – September 2024, the play has transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre and will run until April 19, 2025.
The original production and adaptation of The Years was first produced as De Jaren by Het Nationale Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022.
The creative team includes music supervisor and sound designer Thijs van Vuure, set designer Juul Dekker, costume designer Rebekka Wörmann, lighting designer Varja Klosse, casting director Amy Ball and associate director Yasmin Hafesji.
Garai will be in performances of The Years until March 8. Further casting will be announced at a later date.
Details and tickets: www.theyearsplay.com