Old Times (Premiere: Aldwych Theatre)
Old Times (Premiere: Aldwych Theatre)

Old Times (Premiere: Aldwych Theatre) (1971-1972)


Old Times (Premiere: Aldwych Theatre)

Old Times (1971)

Date from

26 April 1971

Date indicates first date of tour. 26 April was the press night.

Date to

18 March 1972

The production opened the RSC's 1971/72 London season which had its Press Night on 1 June 1971 and later appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon which had its Press Night on 24 January 1972.

No of Performances Unknown
Premiere Yes
Touring Yes
Language English

Venues

Oxford Playhouse (Est. 1938)

21-Apr-1971 to 01-May-1971

Cambridge Arts Theatre (Est. 1936)

03-May-1971 to 08-May-1971

Main Stage, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (Est. 1965)

10-May-1971 to 15-May-1971

Nottingham Playhouse (Est. 1963)

04-May-1971 to 22-May-1971

Aldwych Theatre (Est. 1905)

01-Jun-1971 to 18-Mar-1972

Previews: 27, 28, 29 and 31/5.

Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Est. 1932)

24-Jan-1972

Linked Productions

No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.

Linked People

Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

Creative | Director


John Bury (1925 - 2000)

Creative | Set Designer


John Bury (1925 - 2000)

Creative | Lighting Designer


Beatrice Dawson (1908 - 1976)

Creative | Costume Designer


Roger L. Stevens (1910 - 1998)

Production | Presenter

Associated Presenter.


Linked Organisations

Royal Shakespeare Company (Production Company | Est. 1961)

Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BA, UK

Producer and Company.

Characters

Deeley (Age: early forties, Male)

Performer: Colin Blakely (1930 - 1987)

Kate (Old Times) (Age: early forties, Female)

Performer: Dorothy Tutin (1930 - 2001)

Anna (Old Times) (Age: early forties, Female)

Performer: Vivien Merchant (1929 - 1982)

Linked Awards

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award

1972

Nominated: Best Foreign Play.

Resources

Gareth Lloyd Evans, ‘Pinter’s Old Times in Nottingham’, The Guardian, 18 May 1971 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/185483904/46C35796E2A44D32PQ/1?accountid=14664

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‘ Producing Pinter: Peter Hall and John Bury, director and designer of 'Old Times,' talk to Michael McNay about their, collaboration with the playwright’, The Guardian, 1 June 1971 (URL)

Type: Interview

External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/185582052/46C35796E2A44D32PQ/3?accountid=14664

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Philip Hope-Wallace, ‘New Pinter play at the Aldwych’, The Guardian, 2 June 1971, p. 8 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/185576684/fulltextPDF/46C35796E2A44D32PQ/6?accountid=14664

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Sources

RSC Performance Database

http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/view_as/grid/search/everywhere:hugh-sullivan

URL

This publicly accessible database provided by the Discover Shakespeare website contains information related to past productions, actors and, in some cases, images and details of archival material related to Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions held at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Harold Pinter Official Website

http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/plays_oldtimes.shtml

URL

New York Drama Critics' Circle Website

http://www.dramacritics.org/dc_history.html

URL

Information about linked awards taken from the site's webpage 'History' (of the award) [accessed 29 January 2018].

Old Times Production Programme

The British Library Modern Manuscripts, The Harold Pinter Archive, ADD MS 88880/8/11

Library archive