Piet Arfeuille/ Theater Malpertuis - The Years

In the book De Jaren van Nobelprijswinnares Annie Ernaux, buried under superlatives, the writer surveys her life between 1941 and 2006. Sketched against the canvas of a changing zeitgeist, that yields not only an impressive portrait of a woman, but also an extremely recognizable image of post-war Western history. Piet Arfeuille chooses a strong, intergenerational cast in his theater adaptation. Looking back and looking forward. The history of a zeitgeist flows through these four female bodies, which, together with musician Nicolas Anné, embody different voices and different life phases of one woman. Full houses and praising reviews for the first tour of De Jaren, in which star actresses Els Dottermans and Viviane De Muynck stood on the boards together for the first time in 40 years. “Regisseur Piet Arfeuille and his vital choir use the multi-perspective of the theater to deepen Ernaux’s image of the times even further. The performance makes the power palpable to rise above your own experience.” Wouter Hillaert – De Standaard. 19:15 free introduction to the performance in the foyer