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MARY CONWAY recommends a beautifully judged performance that shines a light on the experience of all female war babies and boomers
RAVISSANT! 12. Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Deborah Findlay, Harmony Rose-Bremner and Anjli Mohindra in The Years [Helen Murray]

The Years
Harold Pinter Theatre

 

THE YEARS opens in the West End following an almost universally rapturous reception at the Almeida last August. Now with the same cast, same director and same inspirational rendition, it has to be a winner. 

The play – based on the literary masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning Annie Ernaux – follows the life of one Annie, born in 1940 in France. 

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