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The Years

Closing: April 19, 2025

The Years - 2025 West End History , Info & More

Harold Pinter Theatre
Panton Street London SW1Y 4DN London

★★★★★ ‘A masterpiece - extraordinarily profound and yet playful drama’ - The Guardian

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 International Theatre Amsterdam.

Coming to the West End for a strictly limited 12 week run beginning January 2025. Romola Garai will be in performances of The Years through Saturday 8 March. Further casting to be announced at a later date.

★★★★★ ‘A unique, profoundly moving experience. It moved me in ways theatre often tries to but rarely achieves’ The Independent

__Assisted Perfromances:__


BSL, 8 March, 2:30pm


Captioned, 15 March, 2:30pm


Audio Described, 22 March, 2:30pm


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FEATURED REVIEWS FOR The Years

Romola Garai and Gina McKee are superb in this philosophical tale of post-war life
8 / 10

What hasn’t arguably been seen on stage to such effect before (and it’s had audience-members fainting) is the re-enacting, by Romola Garai’s version of Annie, of an unwanted pregnancy and back-street abortion. It relays harrowing distress and starkly emblemises the plight of generations of women – an indictment of the burden that fell on them before the supposed liberation of the contraceptive pill and rise of feminism.

Emphatically feminist theatre
10 / 10

Each actor brings a unique quality to the table: Mohindra is curious and watchful, and Rose-Bremner joyfully spirited. Garai embodies defiance, with Findlay restoring a sense of equanimity. McKee, meanwhile, seems to charge the audience, as she embarks on an electrifying bender through the troughs and peaks of desire, grief, hilarity and hysteria.

Photos: Tuppence Middleton in THE YEARS at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - March 14, 2025


Tuppence Middleton began performances in Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s  semi-autobiographical novel The Years earlier this week. Check out photos here!

Tuppence Middleton to Join The Cast of THE YEARS at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2025


Tuppence Middleton (The Motive and The Cue, Mank, Downton Abbey) will be joining the cast in Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical novel The Years. Learn more!

Review Roundup: THE YEARS Makes Its West End Transfer
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 10, 2025


The five-star sold out production of The Years has transferred 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.

Photos: THE YEARS at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - January 30, 2025


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. Check out all new photos here!

Photos: THE YEARS in Rehearsal at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - January 23, 2025


Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new Artistic Director Eline Arbo will return to direct her five-star adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel The Years. Check out rehearsal photos here!

The Years History

Other Productions of The Years

1992   Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
2025   West End
West End

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