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London Theatre Plays 
| The Old Masters | The Old Masters Closed 18th December 2004 - Tickets from London Ticket Web |  | The Old Masters is a Play by Simon Gray. Directed by Harold Pinter with designs by Eileen Diss. Set in 1937 in Florence where, under the menacing shadow of Mussolini, the famous art historian, Bernard Berenson, and the notorious art dealer, Joseph Duveen, have an explosive final encounter.
The Old Masters stars Edward Fox, Peter Bowles and Barbara Jefford along with Sally Dexter and Steven Pacey. It is the ninth play in Simon Gray and Harold Pinter's long standing writer/ director partnership
See it for Fox and Bowles, two wily old masters in their prime.
The Daily Telegraph.
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| THE OLD MASTERS
Theatre : Comedy Theatre
Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN.
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus.
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Previews 26 June, Opens 1 July 2004
Closed 18th December 2004
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Matinees: Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Performance length: to be announced |
Prices: (including booking fee and VAT)
Front Stalls £43.00 - £47.00
Dress Circle £47.00
Upper Circle £35.00
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| | What's New | The Old Masters Closed 18th December 2004The acting, is pure delight. Fox is like some hypnotically eccentric survivor in a crumbling world. Bowles wittily personifies serpentine guile.
The Guardian |
| Theatre Review | The Old Masters One viewing leaves this piece merely ajar. It is complex, cryptic, aworm with dilemmas... Harold Pinter's production takes a while to get going. Only when Bowles strides on stage after 50 minutes does it reach a lick but once there it retains the pace. Stay with this one. It's worth it.
The Daily Mail
The scene is set for a male power-battle, with reputation and loads of money seductively at stake. Or is it? The fascination of The Old Masters has to do with the fact that the audience has to gather and guess just what each of the two famous men are after. Motives and meanings are shrouded in doubt... This tremendously acted production by Harold Pinter finely tunes a tense bartering contest... Barbara Jefford, terrific as Berenson's dying wife, and Sally Dexter's Nicky are final witnessess to the play's sharp warning about human deviousness." The London Evening Standard |
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