Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new Artistic Director Eline Arbo returns to direct her five-star, sold out “masterpiece” (The Guardian) adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel The Years.
Having run to critical acclaim at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and at the Almeida Theatre from August – September 2024, it is now playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre until 19 April 2025.
Who’s in the cast?
Acclaimed actress of stage and screen Tuppence Middleton (The Motive and The Cue, Mank, Downton Abbey) will be joining the cast taking over the role from Romola Garai whose last scheduled performance, as planned, will be Saturday 8 March. Tuppence Middleton’s first performance will be Monday 10 March.
Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner reprise their “extraordinary performances” (Observer) playing one woman in this mesmerizing, personal and political story, set against the backdrop of our rapidly changing world.
What’s the show about?
“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.
The original production and adaptation of The Years was first produced as De Jaren by Het Nationale Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022.
Creative team
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 CDG; Associate Director: Yasmin Hafesji.
Assisted performances
Relaxed –
Captioned –
Audio Described –
British Sign Language (BSL) –
