Betrayal
by Harold Pinter
Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom Hiddleston stars in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal opening on Broadway Sept 05, 2019 with previews to begin Aug 14, 2019.
With poetic precision, rich humour and an extraordinary emotional force, Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. The production also co-stars Fresh Meat and Not Safe For Work’s Zawe Ashton, and Daredevil and The Theory Of Everything’s Charlie Cox.
Betrayal was first produced by the National Theatre in 1978. The original cast featured Pinter at the Pinter company members Penelope Wilton and Michael Gambon.
Pinter’s particular usage of reverse chronology in structuring the plot is innovative: the first scene takes place after the affair has ended, in 1977; the final scene ends when the affair begins, in 1968; and, in between 1977 and 1968, scenes in two pivotal years (1977 and 1973) move forward chronologically. As Roger Ebert observes, in his review of the 1983 film, based on Pinter’s own screenplay, “The ‘Betrayal’ structure strips away all artifice. In this view, the play shows, heartlessly, that the very capacity for love itself is sometimes based on betraying not only other loved ones, but even ourselves.” Still, drawing on the frequently commented influence of Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ and Pinter’s work on the 1977 ‘The Proust Screenplay’ on the 1978 ‘Betrayal,’ more emotionally complex interpretations are possible based on a stress on dual motions, one forward in calendar time toward disillusion and one backward toward the redemptive recovery of time, in each work.
Betrayal
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway
First Preview 14, Aug 2019
Opening Night 05, Sept 2019
Closing 08 Dec, 2019
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Cast
Tom Hiddleston – Robert
Zawe Ashton – Emma
Charlie Cox – Jerry
Eddie Arnold – Waiter
Creative
Written by Harold Pinter
Incidental music by Ben Ringham and Max Ringham
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
Scenic Design by Soutra Gilmour
Costume Design by Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Design by Jon Clark
Sound Design by Ben Ringham and Max Ringham
Bernard b Jacobs Theatre
The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 242 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it opened as the Royale Theatre on January 11, 1927 with a musical entitled Piggy. Producer John Golden leased the theatre and renamed it for himself from 1932 to 1937 (when he moved to the Theatre Masque next door). The Shubert Organization then assumed ownership and initially leased the theatre to CBS Radio. In 1940 the Royale was restored to use as a legitimate theatre under its original name. On May 9, 2005, it was renamed for longtime Shubert Organization president Bernard B. Jacobs. |
