Thom Yorke to Provide Original Music for Broadway Play Old Times

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Thom Yorke is behind the original music for a new Broadway play presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Douglas Hodge, will star Clive Owen, Eve Best, and Kelly Reilly. Previews begin on September 17, and the show’s official run happens from October 6 through November 29 at American Airlines Theatre in New York City.

“It’s been a pleasure working with Doug on my first stage production,” Yorke said in a statement. “I’ve enjoyed exploring through music the script’s themes of love and memory as well as Pinter’s rhythms, twists and turns.”

Hodge said of working with Yorke:

The music Thom has written for Old Times gives an immediacy and a ‘now‐ness’ to the show. The play itself is about memory and love—Thom’s music works backwards and forwards and plays with time and repetition in the same way Pinter does. In true Thom Yorke‐style, the music is epic, heartbreaking, irresistible and complex. I’m hopeful this collaboration will result in a new kind of theatergoer coming to our show.

The play is described as an “unsettling drama of desire and blurred realities”.

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