BETRAYAL by Harold Pinter
Dates: 5/2/2024 – 5/12/2024
Run Time: 90 minutes / no intermission
Ticket Price: (general admission) - $25 (on-line sales will end at 2:30 pm for 8pm shows and 10:30 am for 2pm shows.
Winner of the Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play.
Overview:
The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma’s marriage to Robert, Jerry’s best friend, is now breaking up, and she needs someone to talk to. Their reminiscences reveal that Robert knew of their affair all along and, to Jerry’s dismay, regarded it with total nonchalance. Thereafter, in a series of contiguous scenes, the play moves backward in time, from the end of the Emma-Jerry affair to its beginning, throwing into relief the little lies and oblique remarks that, in this time-reverse, reveal more than direct statements, or overt actions, ever could.
“BETRAYAL is an exquisite play, brilliantly simple in form and courageous in its search for a poetry that turns banality into melancholy beauty.” —Newsweek.
