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{{Short description|Play written by Harold Pinter}}
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| name       = Old Times
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| writer     = [[Harold Pinter]]
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| characters = Anna<br>Deeley<br>Kate
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| setting    = Autumn; night. A converted farmhouse.
| premiere   = {{Start date|1971|06|01|df=y}}
| place      = [[Aldwych Theatre]]<br>London
| orig_lang  = English
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'''''Old Times''''' is a play by [[Harold Pinter]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/13/archives/can-pinter-be-beckett-pinters-old-times.html|title=Theater in London – ''Old Times''|last=Charles Marowitz|author-link=Charles Marowitz|date=13 June 1971|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> It was first performed by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in London on 1 June 1971. It starred [[Colin Blakely]], [[Dorothy Tutin]], and [[Vivien Merchant]], and was directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]]. The play was dedicated to Hall to celebrate his 40th birthday.

Peter Hall also directed the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] première, which opened at the [[Billy Rose Theater]] in New York City on 16 November 1971, starring [[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]], [[Rosemary Harris]] and [[Mary Ure]]; and a year later, the German language première of the play at the [[Burgtheater]] in Vienna, with [[Maximilian Schell]], [[Erika Pluhar]] and [[Annemarie Düringer]]. In February 2007 Hall returned again to the play directing a new production with his [[Theatre Royal, Bath]] company. ''Old Times'' was ranked among the 40 greatest plays ever written by Paul Taylor and Holly Williams of ''[[The Independent]]'', and described as one of Pinter's "most haunting and unnerving pieces".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/40-greatest-best-plays-ever-written-theatre-drama-scripts-shakespeare-a8778031.html|title=The 40 best plays to read before you die|date=2019-08-18|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref>