Old Times

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.