Inspired by the playwright's own seven-year extramarital affair, it uses reverse chronology to trace the unraveling of the adulterous triangle.
In "Merrily" – which uses reverse chronology to explore the dissolution of a triangular friendship – hindsight is painfully 20/20; in "Old Times," it is, at best, astigmatic and, at worst, downright hallucinatory.
It is acknowledged that, by using reverse chronology to chart a seven-year-long affair, Pinter probes the corrosive nature of betrayal.
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"Peppermint Candy" (1999) mingles personal and national history, recounting the life of a troubled man in reverse chronology, through two decades of defining traumas.
Perhaps people were fazed by the reverse chronology of Furth's book, based on a play by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart, which starts in 1976 and ends in 1957.
Then the musical, a tale of three idealists in Manhattan told in reverse chronology, began its process of traveling backward in more ways than one.
DeLillo loosely tracks the object, an emblem of both public and personal history, through the years in a reverse chronology, reaching after the truth of US life.
By the way, just to be clear, that beginning-of-the-affair scene occurs at the end of the play, which is told in reverse chronology.
Shot on location throughout New York City, the film explores the couple's tender moments and unnerving heartbreak with a series of breathtaking solos -- hers tracing the romance in reverse chronology; his rocketing forward from the onset of the relationship.
