The Years is based on the autobiography by French Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux
The Years is an award-winning play based on the autobiography Les Années by the French author Annie Ernaux. Photograph: by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty ImagesAn award-winning play premiering in London had to be stopped for 10 minutes during a preview performance on Monday after several mainly male audience members called for medical assistance after a graphic abortion scene.
During the pause, another audience member is reported to have shouted from the circle that the scene “was a disgrace” and “there was no warning”. In a rare move, the actors on stage responded to the man by saying there had been “warnings about the abortion” in the theatre’s guidance. The statement added that warnings were in place on “the Almeida website – here, on the booking page, in pre-visit emails, and on front of house signage in the theatre”.
The Years is not the first play to have left audience members feeling woozy. In 2016 five people fainted watching graphic scenes of torture, rape and violence in the National Theatre’s Cleansed, while 40 walked out in the show’s first week.
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