When we met last weekend, the world-renowned English theater director David Leveaux was relaxing with a cigarette "in the lovely sunshine" outside a rehearsal studio by Tokyo Bay. He was there for an intensive afternoon's work with the three Japanese actors who form the cast of his upcoming production of "Old Times" by Harold Pinter (1930-2008) at the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo's Hibiya district — for which he is creating a Noh-style platform stage but with LED lights around.