"Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre." New York Times
This play is about a married couple who are visited by a former friend of the wife. The play explores memory, its malleability, and how it shapes our understanding of the past and present.
Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.
'What am I writing about Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet . . . I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did.' Harold Pinter