Reader Reviews
Old Times (The Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly The Comedy Theatre), West End)
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 | A future generation might re-evaluate Pinter and conclude that he was a pretentious and overrated writer whose plays were deliberately obscureto hide the fact that they did not make any sense to anyone ut him and were filled with characters who would never exist in real life. People much cleverer than me have tried to decipher posible explanations for Old Times but as Pinter could not even be bothered to offer any guidance to his cast or directors I don't see why I should bother any more with a writer who seemed to have such disdain for his audience. - David Baxter | 28 Feb 13 |
| I greatly enjoyed the show from start to finish, and agree with the "official" reviewers on their opinions. - Trey Sykes | 07 Feb 13 |
| I really can't see why this is getting four stars by the "official" reviewers. My friend fell asleep, the man at the end of the row left and I envied them both for managing to avoid watching this. I have seen several Pinter plays and saw Kristen Scott Thomas in Betrayal last year with the same director in the same theatre so I went with very high hopes. Perhaps it was because I saw the female actors playing the alternate roles but it was truly dull and lacklustre. I left wanting both my money and 90 minutes of my life back. - Louise | 04 Feb 13 |
| Well maybe you do have have to be a Harold Pinter fan to enjoy this play and I am obviously not as I found this play Pointless. A boring story in drab setting and none of it really made any sense so where this gets 4* here i don't know when many of the papers think like I do. Hallelujah that it had no interval so was only 1hr 30mins long otherwise I would have joined many of the audience who were already nodding off!!!!! No fault in the cast as they all played their roles well and I see Kristin Scott Thomas in all the plays she does and love Rufus Sewell and Lia Williams and I suppose with less talented actors, this would have been ten times worse but really it was a boring night of theatre - Joe Spiteri | 01 Feb 13 |
