Rickman & Duncan to Star in Old Times for the Roundabout?

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.

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