OLD TIMES by Harold Pinter
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. From eyewitness accounts of yesterday's melodramas and mundanities, it fashions plausible, self-serving reports that it passes off as truth. Indeed, polished by repetition, they become truth.
Old Times, Harold Pinter's 1971 play, is perhaps his most gnomic meditation on this, his most preoccupying theme. A woman named Anna (Jane Alexander) comes to visit her roommate of 20 years before. She discovers (if she did not already know) that Kate (Marsha Mason) is married to a man named Deeley (Anthony Hopkins), with whom Anna had some ambiguous contact. Anna has a...
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