Old Times
Michelle Palansky | CBC News | Posted: July 16, 2016 5:22 PM | Last Updated: July 16, 2016
FIVE STARS | 'For me this is perfection — at once intractably complicated and inescapably essential'
Rating: ★★★★★
Company: Who Knows Prod., Winnipeg
Genre: Play — Drama
Venue: 6 — Tom Hendry Theatre
It is such a lovely thing to sit in the dark and let the work of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter wash over you.
Given the opportunity to see extraordinary local performers Sarah Constible, Bill Kerr, and Tracey Nepinak, directed with simplicity and clarity of vision by Ross McMillan, I can ask for no more. - Michelle Palansky
For me this is perfection — at once intractably complicated and inescapably essential. Life, death, sex, and the solitude of human existence. The jockeying for power positions. The inconstancy and mutability of memory. Players weep and shout, flirt and fume, everything changes from moment to moment, and all remains the same.
I get carried away when I see Pinter done well and this is Pinter done very well indeed. Given the opportunity to see extraordinary local performers Sarah Constible, Bill Kerr, and Tracey Nepinak directed with simplicity and clarity of vision by Ross McMillan, I can ask for no more.
Though this may not be a show for all Fringers, for those who love Pinter this is the show for you.
Mic drop.