{"id":84133,"date":"2019-03-14T01:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/14\/betrayal-review-a-haunting-reminder-of-deceptions-impact\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T01:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:26:58","slug":"betrayal-review-a-haunting-reminder-of-deceptions-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=84133","title":{"rendered":"Betrayal review \u2013 a haunting reminder of deception&#039;s impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Pinter Theatre, LondonTom Hiddleston is the big draw and is superb in conveying unhealed emotional woundsAfter a brilliant season of Pinter\u2019s short plays we now get his full-length study of the complex mathematics of betrayal. But, while Tom Hiddleston is the big draw and gives a fine performance, what is striking is the spartan purity of Jamie Lloyd\u2019s production. Of the many versions of the play I\u2019ve seen over the past 40 years this one goes furthest in stripping the action of circumstantial detail.Pinter famously reverses chronology so that we start with the bitter-sweet aftertaste of an affair and then backtrack in time to its beginnings. But Lloyd never lets us forget that there are three sides to an emotional triangle and that the absent partner is always there in the mind. So, as Emma and Jerry meet for a drink long after their relationship is over, we are aware of the gaunt, unforgiving presence of Hiddleston as Emma\u2019s husband, Robert, in the background. In the Venetian scene where Robert first learns of Emma\u2019s affair, Charlie Cox\u2019s Jerry is both physically and spiritually present. And when the two men later have a deceptively casual lunch at a London restaurant, Zawe Ashton\u2019s Emma sits in the shadows pensively munching an apple. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/mar\/14\/betrayal-review-a-haunting-reminder-of-deceptions-impact\" target=\"_blank\">Betrayal review \u2013 a haunting reminder of deception&#039;s impact<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Pinter Theatre, LondonTom Hiddleston is the big draw and is superb in conveying unhealed emotional woundsAfter a brilliant season of Pinter\u2019s short plays we now get his full-length study of the complex mathematics of betrayal. But, while Tom Hiddleston is the big draw and gives a fine performance, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}