It starred Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin, and Vivien Merchant, and was directed by Peter Hall.
Peter Hall also directed the Broadway première, which opened at the Billy Rose Theater in New York City on 16 November 1971, starring 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".
In the next scene, Anna arrives, talking incessantly about the fun times she and Kate shared in their youth.
Anna pretends to have no idea what he's talking about, and he insists that she was trying to be Kate back then, mimicking her mannerisms and shy smile, but she wasn't as good at it.
Deeley recounts first meeting Kate in a movie theater showing the film Odd Man Out.
Eventually Anna admits that she once wore Kate's underwear to a party where a man unabashedly stared up her skirt.
Kate then goes on to describe how Anna had been dead in bed, covered in dirt, and how her body was gone when a man arrived.
Deeley, realizing he is indeed the "odd man out", is reduced to a sobbing little boy, but Kate still won't comfort him.
During rehearsals for a Roundabout Theatre Company production in 1984, Anthony Hopkins, who starred, asked Pinter to explain the play's ending.