Critics have called "Old Times" Pinter's most important play. The New York Times review called it "the finest play of a master dramatist... a mature and astonishingly satisfying play."

The New York Daily News described it as "a touching, beautifully written, often funny and steadily engrossing piece.... It is a work of art and a lovely one."

The story concerns a fashionable and urbane couple who is entertaining the wife's former roommate and friend whom they have not seen in 20 years. The action shifts back and forth in time through memories and recollections of what did - or, perhaps, did not - happen. As the
tensions build, we are aware that the husband and friend have become locked in a duel for the wife's very soul. Harold Pinter's intimate, 1970 dark comedy explores memory, desire, and the terrors that come with relationships.

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"Old Times" at Harold Pinter.org
"Old Times" production notes - University of Pennsylvania
Harold Pinter - A Biography
Harold Pinter.org

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