The Years

Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s extraordinary 2008 novel, beautifully adapted for the stage by Eline Arbo, sold out in the Netherlands, then at the Almeida Theatre, delighting critics and gathering a bunch of five-star reviews in the UK. Together five of the UK’s finest female actors create an unforgiving, brave portrait of a woman born during the Second World War whose life shaped by a fast-changing world. Her story is shocking, intimate, sometimes violent and always gripping, containing violence, blood, and sexual content. As long as you’re OK with that, you can expect a painfully honest tour de force full of drama, delivering a genuinely mesmerising story.