Event

Old Times by Harold Pinter

TheatreFIRST presents Harold Pinter's gripping and mysterious "Old Times", featuring one of the Bay Area's foremost actors, L. Peter Callender as Deeley. When Kate invites Anna, her old roommate, to come visit for the weekend, the stage is set for a trip down Memory Lane. But Memory Lane turns into a minefield as Anna, Kate, and husband Deeley stumble over events and recollections from a past that is shrouded in mystery, sexual tension, and danger. What could have been pleasantly nostalgic becomes an exploration of the thrill, the mystery and the destructive force of desire. This is playwriting of the highest order, and one of the masterpieces that won Pinter the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. This is the first major production of "Old Times" in the Bay Area for many years, and the first to celebrate Pinter's work since his death in December last year. The production will also feature the work of rising Bay Area stars Susannah Martin (director), Julia McNeal and Zehra Berkman. "A brilliantly controlled, tantalizingly enigmatic masterpiece. There is no other play quite like it, in Pinter's collected works, or anyone else's." - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph (London)