Tom Hiddleston (TWHiddleston), ZaweAshton and CharlieCox to make Broadway debuts in a transfer of smash London revival of Harold Pinter's 'Betrayal'
season of 20 one-act pieces has already been a roaring success, so it may seem odd that the director should formally conclude it, atypically, with the Nobel-winning playwright's full-length With a young, absurdly attractive cast led by Hollywood favorite Tom Hiddleston, dynamically minimalist staging and an invitation to the audience to rethink its sympathies, Lloyd presents a subtly fresh take on one of Harold Pinter's greatest plays.
The opening scene between the now ex-lovers — a comic, sad, rather pitiable exchange — establishes the ripples that will run through that reverse course, not least the knowledge of the affair's ultimate failure and Emma's revelation that Robert knew about it for years, despite the complacent Jerry's assumption that he didn't.
Where to locate the true emotion within all this deceit? It's normal to see Emma as the most wounded of the parties, the one leaving an abusive relationship for the hope of another, only to be let down by the ineffectual Jerry, who will never leave his own wife; this was certainly the strongest impression of the last London production, with Kristin Scott Thomas devastating as Emma.
Again, the production adds reverb of its own: Could Robert's later cruelties be defensive gestures, and even his declaration to Jerry that he has beaten his wife a lie, to conceal his own pain? A desperate, momentarily passionate, touching attempt at intimacy between Robert and Emma, Robert's fond cradling of his daughter, and his embrace of the others at the party that marks the beginning of the end all allow for that possibility.
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