Alison Green, Simon Holland and Laura Ings Self in BLT’s June ‘In The Bar’ production of Old Times, directed by Colleen Batson (Photo: Dave Jones / www.ashleighvideo.co.uk)
In The Bar Thu 16 – Sun 19 June 2016 at 7.45pm
Old Times
by Harold Pinter
Directed by Colleen Batson
Anna visits her old friends, Deeley and Kate (husband and wife), at a farmhouse on the English seaside, seemingly to reminisce about their adventures in London 20 years ago. But memory can play false as old friends compete for attention. Their recollections overlap and in that overlapping lies confusion about the truth of what happened: “There are things I remember which may never have happened but, as I recall them, so they take place.”
Old Times was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, June 1971 (directed by Peter Hall), and most recently in January 2013 at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
Bromley Little Theatre welcomes Colleen Batson in her debut as a director at BLT
CAST:
Kate : Laura Ings Self
Deeley : Simon Holland
Anna : Alison Green
“Anyone with an ear for Harold Pinter’s dialogue will recognise the territory on to which his new play Old Times, at the Aldwych, shifts with those lines. A gauntlet has been thrown down. Battle is engaged. The battleground is Kate: which of the two, Deeley or Anna, has possessed more of her?”
– The Observer, 1971
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