Set against the backdrop of a fast-changing post-war Europe, five different actors bring one woman’s personal and political story to life in The Years at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
Memory doesn't stop. It pairs the real with imaginary beings, the dead with the living, and dreams with history.
She strikes a pose, aims the camera, and the shutter clicks:
A small child playing amongst the debris of World War II. Click. A student discovering men's bodies and parties. Click. A wife choosing a velvet sofa. Click. An activist standing up for the right to choose. Click. A mother taking her eldest son to judo lessons. Click. A lover seducing a younger man. Click. A grandmother introducing her granddaughter to the camera. Click.
Eline Arbo directs an inventive stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed “masterpiece” (The Guardian), The Years, from Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux.