Music Acknowledgements
To Peter Hall
The extracts from the songs Lovely to Look At
(copyright 1935 Jerome Kern),
They Can't Take That Away from Me
(copyright 1937 Gershwin Publishing Corp.),
The Way You Look Tonight
(copyright 1937 Jerome Kern),
All the Things You Are, Are Mine
(copyright Chappell & Co. Inc.),
I Get a Kick Out of You
(copyright 1934 Harms Inc.),
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
(copyright 1933 Jerome Kern)
are reproduced by permission
of Chappell & Co. Ltd;
that from Blue Moon
(Rogers and Hart; copyright 1934
by Robbins Music Corporation, New York;
Robbins Music Corp. Limited
35 Soho Square, London W1)
is also reproduced by permission.
The lines from These Foolish Things
are reprinted by permission
of the copyright owners
Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971, with the following cast:
DEELEY Colin Blakely
KATE Dorothy Tutin
ANNA Vivien Merchant
Directed by Peter Hall
The play was produced for television by the BBC in October 1975, with the following cast:
DEELEY Barry Foster
KATE Anna Cropper
ANNA Mary Miller
Directed by Christopher Morahan
It was produced at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, in April 1985 with the following cast:
DEELEY Michael Gambon
KATE Nicola Pagett
ANNA Vivien Merchant
Directed by David Jones
The play was revived for television by the BBC in 1991, with the following cast:
DEELEY John Malkovich
KATE Kate Nelligan
ANNA Miranda Richardson
Directed by Simon Curtis
It was revived at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in July 1995, with the following cast:
DEELEY Leigh Lawson
KATE Julie Christie
ANNA Harriet Walter
Directed by Lindy Davies
It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004, with the following cast:
DEELEY Jeremy Northam
KATE Gina McKee
ANNA Helen McCrory
Directed by Roger Michell
Characters
Deeley
Kate
Anna
All in their early forties