Old Times
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Cititour.com Review
The late Harold Pinter has had a Broadway resurgence of late. Following star-studded productions of Betrayal and No Man’s Land two years ago comes the Roundabout Theatre Company’s transfixing 70-minute revival of the Nobel Prize winner’s haunting 1971 memory play Old Times. The cast includes film and TV star Clive Owen, but it’s his co-stars, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly, who deliver the more compelling performances.
As with much of Pinter’s work, the elliptical nature of Old Times lends itself to a host of interpretations. On the surface, Deeley (Owen) and Kate (Reilly), a married couple who live quietly by the sea, are visited by Anna (Best), Kate’s outgoing former roommate during their swinging London days. Dinner and reminiscing soon segue into a power struggle between Deeley and Anna for “possession” of Kate.
It’s been suggested that Kate and Anna are different sides of the same woman, or that one or both of them are dead and exist only in Deeley’s mind. Douglas Hodge’s production seems to favor the latter. Christine Jones’s mostly naturalistic set includes a vortex backdrop reminiscent of the Doctor Who intro, and an eerie soundscape composed by Thom Yorke of Radiohead.
Owen’s Deeley abounds with archness but doesn’t reach into the core of his pain or loss. Reilly makes Kate an appropriately enigmatic figure. But it’s Best, so magnificent in past Broadway outings of A Moon for the Misbegotten and Pinter’s The Homecoming, who commands attention. Her Anna is smart, alluring, vulnerable and quixotic. “There are things I remember which may never have happened but as I recall them so they take place,” Anna says at one point. Old Times is just as slippery, mysterious and seductive.
By Diane Snyder
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http://ofgoodstockplay.com
Cast
Clive Owen, Eve Best, Kelly Reilly
Open/Close Dates
Opening 10/6/2015
Closing 11/29/2015
Preview Open/ Preview Close Dates
Preview Opening 9/17/2015
Closing Open-ended
Box Office
212-719-1300
Theatre Info
American Airlines Theatre
227 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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