Robert, cool, collected, and totally unfazed, tells a shocked Jerry, who has been feeling guilty for years, that he knew all along about their affair. Robert is a publisher (he claims to hate modern novels and loves Yeats), and Jerry is a literary agent. His latest book, "Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne," is now in paperback. Gussied up with a lot of overt sexuality (kisses where none were called for in the original script), it was not particularly well received. Unfollow. Lloyd’s direction puts that crowded predicament in boldface. Marvel stars Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox join actress-writer Zawe Ashton in the new Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal." Running time is 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. They exhibit all the personality of a statue in Central Park and yet their silent presence proves deeply disturbing.
Most ominously is Hiddleston’s Robert who is seen lurking in the shadows in just about every Emma and Jerry two-handed scene. Along the way there are a couple of riveting scenes between best friends Robert and Jerry. I have no idea why this thought came about.
Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.27 EDT. I have often been asked how my plays come about. When I first heard that Harold Pinter’s Betrayal was coming to Broadway I was thrilled. She’s a woman, for starters. A limited run it closes on Sunday, December 8, 2019 Playwright: Harold Pinter. Directed by Peter Hall, it starred Raul Julia as Jerry, Blythe Danner as Emma, and Roy Scheider as Robert. Robert Hofler, TheWrap's lead theater critic, has worked as an editor at Life, Us Weekly and Variety. Except for an occasional chair or table and a glass or two, the play’s action – all the better for the audience to see, hear and mentally stabilize their bearings – takes place on a bare stage against an unfettered, variously lit, slate gray background that acts as a blackboard on which all is writ. It is three friends and lovers lost in a web of their own spinning. Those other not-present partners have a way of hovering over the bed sheets. The year is 1968. To borrow an art-world term, her work is “counterfeit.”. When this Emma does interact with Robert or Jerry, she strikes a limited number of poses — legs splayed apart or ankles wrapped together when she’s sitting, one arm akimbo and one hip stuck out when she’s standing. No doubt, not unlike in the film Jules and Jim (1962), the fact that both men were in love with the same woman – and, equally important, sleeping with her – brought them even closer. The actor takes the play’s big moments and makes them explode by underplaying them in this revival of the Harold Pinter classic. Oft times, totally wordless, again matching the Pinter’s scripted moments of silence, the actors are seen just looking at each other.
Required fields are marked *. However, although she is identified as the owner of a gallery, her career never figures much into the story, while Jerry and Robert’s positions in the London book publishing world is central. Much more interesting is what the average punter in the audience says. Unlike Hiddleston and Cox, who remain stationary when their characters are supposed to be off stage, Ashton sometimes stalks that back wall. For those unfamiliar with this three-character play – the wife Emma (Zawe Ashton), her husband Robert (Tom Hiddleston), and her husband’s long-time best friend Jerry (Charlie Cox), also Emma’s long-time lover – covers a span of seven years in reverse order. The university that awarded Hiddleston a double first in classics was Cambridge, not Oxford. Broadway Review: ‘Betrayal’ With Tom Hiddleston The impeccable London revival of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” with Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton, transfers to Broadway. And many other things besides. We also are made privy to Robert and Emma’s heated confessions to each other about their own indiscretions during a vacation on the island of Torcello. Last Updated: September 5, 2019 @ 5:13 PM. Betrayal opened on Broadway on August 14, 2019 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at 242 West 45 th Street. Eventually, through eight moving and oft surprising scenes we are brought back to Emma’s very first, not-so-innocent attraction to Jerry, and Jerry’s sudden declaration of love. Well yes, quite. I cannot say. Midfielder, now with Derby, formerly Tottenham? I am expecting a bunch of Tony nominations, and maybe even a win or two for the director, actors, and tech. Yeah, pretty good. No, that’s Tom Huddlestone. Reviews of Stage Shows Across the United States. It’s a tour de force of understatement, and one Hiddleston repeats later over drinks with Jerry to only slightly less devastating effect. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. Jon Clark’s lighting brings to mind an office or a laboratory. For example, the woman, reported to be in her 30s, in seat B3 …, Go on then, what did the woman in B3 say? The ultimate endorsement – or highly inappropriate behaviour? Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, Tom Hiddleston, with Eddie Arnold, Scenic & Costume Design: Soutra Gilmour, Lighting Design: Jon Clark, Sound Design & Composition: Ben & Max Ringham. Also Read: Loki, Scarlet Witch, More Marvel Characters to Get Standalone Shows on Disney Streaming Service. Another highly effective directorial and set designer touch (again showing the interrelatedness of the characters over the years) is the production’s use of a revolving turntable built into the stage, which ,when in use, has the characters coming close and being pulled apart as they circle each other. But oddly, people seem to just be having a jolly good laugh about it, even saying it is a ringing endorsement of Hiddleston’s acting prowess.
“Revelatory”, said the New York Times. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2013. She spends the play’s 90 minutes barefoot, as if to stress her vulnerability. There, Ashton plays another pretentious arbiter of taste, from L.A.’s gallery scene. Fake news?
Also Read: 'Make Believe' Theater Review: Why Childhood Isn't for Sissies. ‘Betrayal’ Broadway Review: Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox & Zawe Ashton In Pinter’s Affair To Remember . LOGIN ‘Betrayal’ Broadway Review: Tom Hiddleston Gives a Master Class in Minimalism. Betrayal. Click Here to buy Betrayal tickets today! 10. Emma, in fact, talks more about the books that Jerry and Robert are responsible for publishing (or not) than she does her own artists. Betrayal, arguably Pinter’s most-produced play, had its American premiere on Broadway in 1980. So, stay tuned. ‘A rhythmic banging was punctuated by low moans and giggles’ … Tom Hiddleston in Betrayal. “Superb”, said the Hollywood Reporter. Who did? ‘Make Believe’ Theater Review: Why Childhood Isn’t for Sissies, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ Theater Review: How to Turn a Musical Into Meat Loaf. Do say: “Any seat in the house is fine, apart from B3, please.”. Oh my God, that kind of “ha”. For more information, or to buy tickets check out www.betrayalonbroadway.com or call 212- 239-6200. It comes when Elizabeth Taylor, playing a bohemian artist living in Big Sur, finds out that her Episcopalian minister-lover, played by Richard Burton, has told his wife that he’s having an affair. • This article was amended on 24 September 2019. 'Hercules' Theater Review: Can Disney's Animated Hero Go the Distance to Broadway? Unlike Roy Scheider in the first Broadway production of “Betrayal” (1980), or Daniel Craig in the last Broadway revival (2013) or even Ben Kingsley in the movie version (1983), Hiddleston’s Robert does not pull a Liz-size tantrum to punish his unfaithful spouse, Emma (Zawe Ashton, “Velvet Buzzsaw”), who is Jerry’s longtime paramour. Betrayal. Betrayal Overview - The BEST Broadway source for Betrayal tickets and Betrayal information, photos and videos. OK, so this fella is sitting in the row behind the woman in B3, and during one particularly saucy bit in which Hiddleston is kissing his on-stage/off-stage lover, writes the man: “My companion could feel a rhythmic banging against his armrest, punctuated by occasional low moans and giggles.”. Which one? Matching Pinter’s laying down of words is the slow pacing and tableau-like posing of the actors which in ways resembles a snapshot. A second Broadway revival, staged in 2000 at the Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre and directed by David Leveaux starred Juliette Binoche, Liev Schreiber, and John Slattery. Maybe more like “Haaaaa”, or “Aaaaahhh”, but he wrote “Ha”. The play opens in 1977 at a restaurant two years after Emma’s and Jerry’s seven-year affair has ended.
A female audience member is reported to have had an orgasm during a saucy scene in Betrayal. It seems that Emma, still sentimental about their past good times and, perhaps still attracted to him, has called Jerry out of the blue to inform him she is divorcing Robert, her husband of 14 years, and that she recently told her husband all about their affair. Bloody hell, I hate him. These shadows on the wall also hint of each of the characters other selves. Perhaps too odd for the good of this revival. Adding another layer of closeness is that both men, once poetry editors at the respective colleges, work in the same industry.
Good reviews? Or does it simply make her more ready than the guys for a little bedroom action? Instead of giving Emma the easy release of being screamed at, his instinct is to torture her with measured queries delivered from a suppressed cloud of anger. The Night Manager, right? For more information, or to buy tickets check out www.betrayalonbroadway.com or call 212- 239-6200. Fellow actor Susannah Fielding; global superstar Taylor Swift, briefly. He’s as sympathetic as Hiddleston is manipulative. In the end what we have been experiencing, backwards of course, is the breakdown of love and its inevitable fading. It’s a picayune observation, but Gilmour’s purposefully ordinary costumes provide shoes for Hiddleston and Cox but none for Ashton. Maybe it was because recently there have been spate of plays and films that have used this same ‘shuffling of times’ trick ad nauseam. Your email address will not be published. On the other hand, having seen Betrayal a number of years ago and remembering virtually nothing about it, I was of the mind that this play, based on Pinter’s own seven-year extramarital affair during the 1960s, and written in reverse chronological order, was a one-trick pony. Your email address will not be published. The last revival, directed by Mike Nichols, starred Daniel Craig as Robert, his real-life wife Rachel Weisz as Emma, and Rafe Spall as Jerry.
Then it transferred to Broadway. She thought it was funny? A limited run it closes on Sunday, December 8, 2019 Playwright: Harold Pinter. It was at the Harold Pinter theatre in London. Rarely have I seen scenic and costume (Soutra Gilmour) and lighting design (Jon Clark) lift a production this close to heaven. Otherwise, Lloyd’s direction demands that we see her in a different light. This “Betrayal” revival, directed by Jamie Lloyd, is as bare and stark as the last Broadway revival, directed by Mike Nichols, was fussy and overproduced. Hiddleston’s take on Robert possibly not being a father-times-two is to underplay the moment, and, in the process, show us that Robert has the upper hand despite his own chronic philandering.
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