About the show

Eline Arbo’s five-star, “unmissable” (The Daily Telegraph) The Years continues its captivating West End run.

Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s groundbreaking masterpiece, The Years is an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly changing world.

Writer, mother, student, activist, wife, daughter, lover, grandmother… each vivid version of Annie is told through a series of snapshots. Weaving together memory and history, an ordinary life is marked by a changing body and a changing society, revealing a “remarkable picture of womanhood over the 20^th century” (Daily Mail). With “so much emotional depth, surprise and theatrical virtuosity” (The Guardian) The Years “moves you in ways theatre often tries to but rarely achieves” (The Independent).

Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee, Tuppence Middleton, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner deliver “an acting masterclass” (The Times), their performances “glorious and continually unexpected” (The Observer).

This provocative, visceral production, played for a strictly limited run at the Harold Pinter Theatre and closed 19 April 2025.

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