Recommended for ages 15+. Trigger Warnings: Please note that this production contains graphic depictions of abortion, blood, a coerced sexual encounter, and sexual content, which may at times be distressing.
Performance dates
24 January - 19 April 2025
Run time: 1 hour 55 mins
No interval
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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.
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Trigger Warnings: Please note that this production contains graphic depictions of abortion, blood, a coerced sexual encounter, and sexual content, which may at times be distressing. The production includes the use of e-cigarettes, haze and flashing lights.Access
BSL Performance : Saturday 8 March 2025 2.30pm, Captioned Performance: Saturday 15th March 2025 2.30pm, Audio Described Performance: Saturday 22 March 2025 2.30pmRecent Reviews
A rare night combining outstanding production, stunning performances and cast, extraordinary writing and adaption - do not miss this!
Amazing production with superb actors loved it
The play was very thought provoking and the staging was very clever taking us through the different periods of life of a French woman’s - each era represented by a different stained tablecloth. Some parts were very graphic but we were warned about this beforehand. All in all a very good play- well acted and staged well.
Bloody excellent! Loved it so much and the acting was amazing!!
Nothing special really ….. a chronological series of decade by decade from the 2nd WorkdcWar onwards , reviewing changes in those decades with bits to shock. Great acting , a good simple stage set. Disappointed.m
Incredible, thought provoking theatre - beautifully executed by five talented women. Funny, dramatic with live music peppered throughout. Recommend highly.
Everything about the production was amazing.
Amazing actresses and very moving.
Powerful, superb adaptation, sensitively acted with warmth, humour and deep understanding.
Long-winded first-person narrative with little emotional engagement, despite a talented and very hard-working cast
Just wonderful
Production, staging and acting were great
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