AT THE HAROLD PINTER THEATRE, LONDON
The Years: West End
Adapted and Directed by Eline Arbo, based on Les Années by Annie Ernaux, in an English version by Stephanie Bain
Event details
Fri 24 Jan - Sat 19 Apr 2025
Following a ★★★★★ sold-out run at the Almeida, The Years transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End from January 2025.
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, coming to the West End for a strictly limited 12 week run following sold out runs at the Almeida and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.
★★★★★
“A masterpiece – extraordinarily profound and yet playful drama”
The Guardian
The Years is produced by the Almeida Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions.
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Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2.30pm
Cast & Creative Team
Romola Garai will be in performances of The Years through Sat 8 Mar. Further casting to be announced at a later date.
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Cast
Deborah Findlay
Romola Garai
Gina McKee
Anjli Mohindra
Harmony Rose-Bremner
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Creatives
Eline Arbo
Director and Adapter
Stephanie Bain
English Adapter
Annie Ernaux
Original Book Writer
Tanya Leslie and Alison L. Strayer
Translators
Thijs van Vuure
Music Supervisor and Sound Designer
Juul Dekker
Set Designer
Rebekka Wörmann
Costume Designer
Varja Klosse
Lighting Designer
Yarit DorYarit Dor
Intimacy Director
Yarit Dor
Yarit is a multidisciplinary creative working as a Fight Director, IDC Certified Intimacy Director and Movement Director. She is co-director of Moving Body Arts and an Ensemble Associate Artist of The Shakespeare’s Globe. In 2019 she originated the role of the Intimacy Director in the West End and recently she’s been awarded a Fellow of Rose Bruford College.
For the Almeida: The Years;“Daddy” A Melodrama.
Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single; Hamilton; The Shark Is Broken (West End); Hadestown (West End/ National Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Death Of A Salesman (West End/ Young Vic); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Othello; Henry V; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Hamlet; As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); The Homecoming; The Second Woman; Changing Destiny (Young Vic); A View From The Bridge (Headlong); This Is Not Who I Am (Royal Court); Old Bridge (Bush Theatre).
Film includes: Wicked.
Television includes: Daisy Jones and The Six; Mood; The Rings of Power.
Dance includes: Weather Is Sweet; Death Trap; Peaky Blinders (Rambert Dance Company); The Burnt City (Punchdrunk).
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Casting Director
Amy Ball CDG
For the Almeida: The Years; Alma Mater; Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.
Theatre includes: Hamnet (RSC); Lyonesse; The Hills of California; Jerusalem; Leopoldstadt; Uncle Vanya; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Night of Iguana; Rosmersholm; True West; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; The Pillowman (West End); The Son (Kiln Theatre/ West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre/ West End); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Birthday Party; Consent (National Theatre/ West End); Hangmen (Royal Court/ West End/ Atlantic Theater Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Stories; Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise; A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Maryland; ear for eye; Girls & Boys; Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court).
Heidi Bryan
Costume Supervisor
Sophia Khan
Wigs, Hair and Make Up Supervisor
Matt Smith
Vocal Coach
Fabien EnjalricFabien Enjalric
Dialect Coach
Fabien Enjalric
Originally from Paris, Fabien is a language and accent coach based in London who specialises in coaching for film, television and theatre. Passionate about languages, he holds a BA in Eastern European studies and is fluent in French, Russian and Italian, as well as conversational in Spanish, German and Swedish.
Fabien has worked on numerous projects with some well-known names in the industry including Dame Helen Mirren, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Charlotte Rampling, Margot Robbie, Jenna Coleman, Chris Pine and Samuel L. Jackson among others.
Theatre includes: Henry V; Force Majeure; Belleville (Donmar Warehouse); Life of Pi (Sheffield Theatres).
Film includes: Dune; All the Old Knives; Wonder Woman; The King; Hotel Mumbai; Mary Queen of Scots; Justice League; The Hundred Foot Journey; Tetris; SAS: Red Notice; The Spy Who Dumped Me; Adam Jones.
Television includes: The Crown; Litvinenko; A Spy Amongst Friends; The Boys; Slow Horses; Half Bad; The Confessions of Frannie Langton; The Serpent; Dracula; Gomorrah; Silent Witness; Strike Back; Secret Invasion; Hanna; SAS Rogue Heroes; Baptiste.
Yasmin Hafesji
Associate Director
Access Performances
Audio Described Sat 22 Mar 2.30pm
Captioned Sat 15 Mar 2.30pm
BSL Interpreted Sat 8 Mar 2.30pm
For any accessibility enquiries please contact the ATG Access team on 0800 912 6971.
Reviews
2024 Almeida Production
“Masterpiece”
The Guardian
“Profoundly moving”
Independent
“Magnificent”
The i
Production Photos
2024 Almeida Production | Photos by Ali Wright
