"One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century.
Pinter's work gets under our skin more than that of any living
playwright." --New York Times
Upon its premiere at the National Theatre, Betrayal was immediately
recognized as a masterpiece. It won the Olivier Award for best new play,
and has since been performed all around the world and made into an
Academy Award-nominated film starring Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, and
Patricia Hodge. Betrayal begins with a meeting between adulterous
lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During
the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time through the stages of
their affair, ending in the house of Emma and her husband Robert,
Jerry's best friend.
"[Betrayal] deals with the shifting balance of power in triangular
relationships, and with the pain of loss. . . . Pinter probes the
corrosive nature of betrayal . . . a world where pain and loss are
explored with poetic precision." --Guardian
"Betrayal is an exquisite play, brilliantly simple in form and
courageous in its search for a poetry that turns banality into a
melancholy beauty." --Newsweek
"There is hardly a line into which desire, pain, alarm, sorrow, rage or
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