Betrayal Tickets
About Betrayal
Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom Hiddleston (Marvel's "The Avengers," "The Night Manager") stars alongside Zawe Ashton (Channel 4’s "Not Safe for Work," "Fresh Meat”) and Charlie Cox ("DareDevil," "The Theory of Everything") in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, opening at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre for a strictly limited 12-week season from 5 March 2019.
With poetic precision, rich humour and an extraordinary emotional force, Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. Described as “the greatest, and the most moving, of all Pinter’s plays” (Daily Telegraph), this production marks the culmination of the Jamie Lloyd Company’s ground-breaking Pinter at the Pinter season.
Run time
1hr 30mins (no interval)
Start date
5th March, 2019
End date
8th June, 2019
Categories
Betrayal cast and creative team
By: Harold Pinter
Director: Jamie Lloyd
Cast list: Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox
Venue
Directions
Location: West End
Railway station: Charing Cross
Bus numbers: (Haymarket) 3, 6, 12, 13, 19, 23, 38, 88, 139; (Piccadilly Circus) 14, 22, 94
Night bus numbers: (Haymarket) 6, 12, 23, 139, 88, N3, N13, N18, N19, N38, N97, N136, N550, N551; (Piccadilly Circus) 14, 94, N22
Car park: Leicester Square, Whitcomb Street (1min)
Directions from tube: (3mins) Take Coventry Street up to Oxendon Road; the theatre is 100 metres along on the right.
More information about Betrayal
Marvel star Tom Hiddleston leads the cast of “Betrayal,” Harold Pinter’s richly complex drama cataloguing the demise of a scandalous relationship in reverse chronological order. If throwing shade and spilling tea are your thing, this 1978 play is the masterclass. Considered to be one of Pinter’s most renowned works, “Betrayal” is characterised by the playwright’s classic clipped dialogue, replete with withering silences, veiled insults, and passive deception. Hiddleston plays Robert, whose wife Emma has been carrying on an affair with the also-married Jerry for several years. When Emma finally confesses her wrongdoing to Robert, she also effectively betrays Jerry in the process given that Robert is his close friend. The innovative structure of the play zooms in on the moments when romance loses to deceit, emphasizing our human capacity to simultaneously love and corrupt one another.
“Betrayal” will bookend the yearlong lineup for the “Pinter at the Pinter,” season as produced by the Jamie Lloyd Company, rounding out an anthology of performances of the playwright’s beloved works to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death.
What to watch for
“Betrayal” is famously based on true events, revealing Pinter’s seven-year affair with BBC television presenter Dame Joan Bakewell. In its 1978 staging, the playwright knowingly aired dirty laundry Bakewell never wanted exposed — leading her to announce her rebuttal in the form of her own play, “Keeping in Touch,” in 2017.
Pinter wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film adaptation of “Betrayal” released in 1983. The film starred Ben Kingsley in the role of Robert, Jeremy Irons as Jerry, and Patricia Hodge as Emma.
The structure of the play is often thought to be heavily influenced by the work of Marcel Proust, more specifically by his novel “In Search of Lost Time.” Pinter was tapped as the screenwriter to adapt Proust’s work for the screen in 1972, only a few years before writing “Betrayal”.
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