Variety reports that
Alan Rickman and
Lindsay Duncan may star in Harold Pinter's 1970 play
Old Times as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006-2007 season.
However, a revival for the play has not yet been confirmed, and the industry paper explains that "
Production has not yet secured an actress to play
the third role in Pinter's ambiguous tale about a married couple
visited by an old friend. It's said Lena Olin passed, and there's also
talk of Duncan changing her mind about which female role she wants to
play." If the production goes through, it will join the previously-announced
110 in the Shade and
Heartbreak House as part of the season line-up, as well as Off-Broadway productions of Tennessee Williams'
Suddenly Last Summer, Patrick Marber's
Howard Katz and
Brian Friel's
The Home Place at the Laura Pels Theatre.
Old Times would play Studio 54.
Rickman and Duncan were last seen onstage together in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Noel Coward's
Private Lives. They also appeared as amoral aristocrats in the London and Broadway productions of
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, adapted by
Christopher Hampton.
Rickman's film credits include the
Harry Potter films
, Love Actually, Dogma, Sense and Sensibility and
Die Hard. He co-adapted the diaries that served as the basis for the controversial
My Name is Rachel Corrie, which is set to begin at the Minetta Lane Theatre this October.
Duncan's London theatre credits include
Mouth to Mouth and
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Film and TV credits include "Rome,"
Under the Tuscan Sun, AfterLife, Mansfield Park, An Ideal Husband, Prick Up Your Ears, and
Manifesto.Visit
www.roundabouttheatre.org for more information on the Roundabout Theatre Company.
