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Topic: Betrayal (play)


  
 Betrayal - BDNews
The question of who is the betrayer and who is the betrayee are not, however, so simple to answer.
The play opens two years after Jerry and Emma have broken off a seven-year affair and, from there, takes baby steps forward and giant steps backward through nine years of elusive emotional mazes.
If you see the play as centrally about Jerry and Robert, whose commitment to each other is greater than either of their individual relationships to Emma, then Brevoort’s viewpoint may seem as flat as the white-wine hues that creamily bathe this production.
www.gbrevoort.com /BetrayalBDNews.htm   (680 words)

  
 www.haroldpinter.org - Plays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Not that Betrayal is autobiographical; still Pinter is signalling something about the inspiration for his new play, in which the mysteries and metaphysics of No Manís Land are replaced by the oldest story in the civilised world, an adulterous love affair that breeds ecstasy and pain in its spiral of desire and deception.
Betrayal is an exquisite play, brilliantly simple in form and courageous in its search for a poetry that turns banality into a melancholy beauty.
And there is nearly an infinite vista of betrayals within the play: Jerry, an authorís agent, and Robert, a publisher, are successful figures in the publishing world, but Pinter hints that their careers are also betrayals of a deeper vision that they once had.
www.haroldpinter.org /plays/plays_betrayal.shtml   (706 words)

  
 Boston’s Weekly Dig: Articles: BETRAYAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whenever I end up in a conversation about a movie or a play I haven’t seen, I’m adamant that no one gives away the ending—I prefer to view it in ignorance and wonderment, letting the tension rise as the story progresses and questions are answered.
Betrayal opens with a meeting between Emma (Rose Carlson) and Jerry (Mark Hessler), as they engage in a stiff and awkward game of catch-up, two years after the end of their seven-year affair.
Betrayal’s dialogue is the sort of mannered parlance that characterizes a David Mamet or Hal Hartley film, where the actors call attention to the awkwardness of language and the strange, stock phrases that we use to capture and convey—or conceal—our interior landscapes.
www.weeklydig.com /articles/betrayal   (626 words)

  
 Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Betrayal"
Suspenseful, lyrical, human, and complex, BETRAYAL is perhaps just the kind of theatre Edith Wharton would have loved in her opulent upstairs parlour on a cool midsummer's night.
Written in 1978, BETRAYAL represents one of Pinters last producable plays for the stage, having written the body of what are considered his finest plays before 1972.
BETRAYAL is less cryptic and more causal than the rest, and, despite telling this story in reverse order, the first scene taking place in the spring of 1977 and the last in the winter of 1968, BETRAYAL is relatively straight-forward and logical.
www.theatermirror.com /betrayal.htm   (882 words)

  
 Loyal to Betrayal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Betrayal begins at the end of an affair between Emma (Marcia Kash) and her husband's best friend Jerry (Martin Evans) and goes back to the beginning in nine snapshot scenes.
Running at only 80 uninterrupted minutes, Betrayal is a detached analysis of a domestic accident, dissected in nine short scenes that generally go back in time from two years after the end of Emma and Jerry's seven-year affair right to the beginning of the romance.
Betrayal is for all its restraint a fierce battle; when it is over you want to go back to the beginning and watch it all over again.
www.herald.ca /external/blackhatstation/betrayal.html   (1488 words)

  
 0nline: The Liev Schreiber Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The play is concerned with the evasions and tiny lies always concealing half-truths (seemingly inherent in the English language).
Binoche plays Emma, a gallery owner who in the play's opening scene is meeting at a pub with her former lover Jerry (Schreiber).
Pinter pointedly ends the play with a scene that's as fraught with overt emotion as the rest of the play is devoid of it.
www.lievschreiber.org /betrayalreviews.shtml   (4996 words)

  
 No Life Til Metal - CD Gallery - Betrayal
Betrayal was formed by Marcus Colon, guitars; (ex-Martyr), Chris Ackermann, vocals, and Jeff Lain, bass.
The instrumental opening, which I am sure was played by Lurch from the Adams Family, is a harpsichord and acoustic guitar intro that leads into the speed assault of "The Invitation." Much of the lyrics on this disc deal with the trappings of the occult.
Betrayal also released a cassette single off this album called "Fear Be Gone and Fallen Deceived" (industrial re-mix) that I also have.
www.nolifetilmetal.com /betrayal.htm   (388 words)

  
 Barter Theatre - Reviews
BETRAYAL is a play seething with emotion, with layer upon layer of deceit revealed as we move from the present day backwards, ending the play at the start of Emma and Jerry’s affair in 1968.
BETRAYAL is a challenging script that can become ponderous in the hands of a less-experienced director, but Hardy has succeeded in carefully exposing its most subtle nuances.
In BETRAYAL, credit must be given to Derek Smith for designing an impressive and creative setting for the play’s many challenging scene changes, to Cheri Prough DeVol for her exceptional lighting design, and to Bobby Beck for creating a sound design that helped move the action of the play.
www.bartertheatre.com /season/reviews_detail.html?review_id=7   (807 words)

  
 Cary M. Mazer: review of Betrayal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Just about all there is to Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal is contained in the title -- except that the betrayal to which the title refers is not only Jerry's betrayal of his best friend, but the equally large betrayals of trust in all three relationships in the triangle.
This is, in short, a wonderful play, filled with seething emotions: of longing, confusion, pain, and deep, deep senses of betrayal, of all kinds and at all levels.
And so, with all the emotions on the table, they all miss the bigger emotional issues of the play: the terror of remaining a stranger to one's nearest and dearest and to oneself, of standing at the frontiers of what Jerry calls "the state of catatonia...
www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/betrayal.html   (351 words)

  
 'Betrayal' theatre review - Nowt2Do.Com: Listings and Reviews for Bristol and Beyond!
It's about betrayal, of course, but more than that, at times it's also more about the love held by the two "betrayers" than the wrong or right of their situation together.
One of the central plays to Pinter's career as a playwright, it's not too long, but is certainly a tense and interesting affair.
Hints of what's to come later in the story (that is, what we've already seen in the play) are dropped in without being shown off too much, and in a way that similar plays sometimes don't manage, there's actually some sort of a rounding off at the end.
www.nowt2do.co.uk /review.php?id=56   (550 words)

  
 Nigel Bennett Betrayal Neptune Theatre Press Release Page
A gripping study of adultery, Betrayal is the story of the ultimate love triangle.
Beginning at the end of an affair between Emma and her husband’s best friend, Jerry, each scene of this compelling masterpiece moves backwards in time to the fateful moment when the infidelity began.
And it was accorded the rare honor of "greatest play of the 20th century"
www.blackhatstation.com /Theatre/Betrayal/neptune.htm   (292 words)

  
 Welcome to Theatre Reviews Limited
In 1978, HAROLD PINTER's "Betrayal" caused a sensation in that the time sequence would be played backward.
In this play about deception, everyone lies at one point or another, but we're not always sure who is lying or why.
In fact, by the end of the play, it is difficult to reconcile these torpid, emotionally-stifled folks with the impulsively passionate Emma and Jerry we finally get to meet in a scene that takes place a full nine years before the first scene.
www.theatrereviews.com /betrayal.html   (955 words)

  
 Betrayal
Surprisingly, when Betrayal premiered back in 1978, it was not universally well received in the critical press.
But autobiographical gossip is not the point – nor was Betrayal written to serve as a cautionary tale on the dangers of adultery and marital infidelity.
Pinter succeeds in transcending the sordid details of his own infidelities and has written a universal play that examines the hopes and dreams which lie beneath the best (or worst) of our intrigues and disguises.
www.gbrevoort.com /Betrayal.htm   (565 words)

  
 Betrayal by Harold Pinter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After a few years in which he has been more famous for antiwar activism than for his plays, the enfant terrible of the 1960s is now the Nobel laureate for literature and is seeing a massive revival of his work.
Betrayal is the most recent of his major works, a play rooted in reality which deals with infidelity and vanished love.
Betrayal is the story of Robertand his best friend Jerry, now the lover of Robert’s wife Emma.
www.robertandme.co.uk   (313 words)

  
 H-SC Fine Arts Department Presents Harold Pinter's Betrayal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The play, a reverse chronology of a love affair, comes to Hampden-Sydney after recently having concluded a successful run on Broadway with the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Thus, despite its sparse and simple language, the play becomes an in-depth exploration of deeply complex and elusive states of mind.
Betrayal will run Friday and Saturday, February 23 and 24, and Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, in Johns Auditorium at Hampden-Sydney.
www.hsc.edu /news/archive/play.html   (402 words)

  
 Amazon.com: WWE Betrayal: Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Play as The Rock, Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin, or the Undertaker in your quest to save Stephanie and reclaim your title.
Betrayal an old school street fighting "beat-em up" type game that goes along the lines of Double Dragon and Final Fight.
Betrayal is the worst wwf game that will ever be made.
www.amazon.com /WWE-Betrayal/dp/B00005ME8P   (1347 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Betrayal: Books: Harold Pinter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pinter ingeniously has the play occur in reverse chronological order, so that it begins with a meeting between Jerry and Emma in 1977, years after their affair, and it ends with a shocking scene from 1968.
While adultery is the most evident theme of the play, it is about other forms of betrayal: how we betray our friends, betray our spouses by permitting them to break the bonds of marriage, and how our words and actions betray the secrets we strive to hide.
BETRAYAL is an excellent play for anyone who likes the work of Harold Pinter.
www.amazon.com /Betrayal-Harold-Pinter/dp/0802130801   (1828 words)

  
 Betrayal, a CurtainUp London review
Betrayal is one of his most natural plays, no monologues branching out into the surreal, a play about real people in real situations.
Twenty five years after its London premiere, Betrayal failed to have anything except a shallow impact on me. The updating, the play regresses to the point where Jerry and Emma commence their extra-marital affair, seems to me to be a mistake.
The difference in Pinter's play is that there is a second betrayal, probably the one that interests men and Pinter more, the betrayal of the close friendship between the two men.
www.curtainup.com /betrayallond.html   (719 words)

  
 Rulings on Betrayal
While the Modular creature may come into play as a 0/0 creature that does not mean that the counter is not that or that the Modular ability does not trigger.
Q: Since Night of Souls' Betrayal is a Legendary Enchantment, I know if you play a second one it dies as a state based effect.
If there is one Night of Souls' Betrayal in play and another comes into play then when state-based effects both Night of Souls' Betrayal will go to the graveyard, as will any creature which has had its toughness lowered to zero by this second Night of Souls' Betrayal.
www.starcitygames.com /pages/judgefinder.php?keywords=Betrayal   (1593 words)

  
 Yale Herald Online: Pinter's 'Betrayal' charts family tree of lies
The play begins with the dissolution of Robert's and Emma's marriage (updated here to 1997), and follows the affair to its inception nine years earlier.
In a play where the terms "years" and "some time now" take on precise numerical value, everyone must work overtime to discover what lies between the lines.
Pastor faces the biggest challenge, and must play a man that Emma would leave but with whom the audience wants her to reconcile.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxiii/2.21.97/ae/betrayal.html   (795 words)

  
 Betrayal PRESS OPENING - StageSource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Move beyond this compelling framework and Betrayal is a master-class in language and subtext.
The play has stunned audiences for 25 years because it is so easily accessible, translating for us our own world where charm can be possessive, concern can contain a hidden mockery, and even genuine love can be a violation.
One of the play’s most intriguing qualities and a cornerstone of director Dani Duggan’s vision for the piece is the unwrapping of the rhythm and structure of Pinter’s language.
www.stagesource.org /pages/1325_betrayal_press_opening.cfm   (619 words)

  
 BBC - Northamptonshire - On Stage - Betrayal
The word was being used in 1960, just three years after Harold Pinter's first play was performed.
The Royal Theatre's in-house production of Betrayal coincides with a major retrospective of Pinter's work by BBC Four, the free digital TV channel.
But this play does not start at the beginning of the affair.
www.bbc.co.uk /northamptonshire/stage/betrayal.shtml   (336 words)

  
 betrayal - TCGplayer.com Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I played betrayal for him to stun one character and then the other since he controlled 2 different teams, was that legal?
Betrayal only works if they have different team affiliations, as long as they each share 1 team affiliation betrayal will not work.
Betrayal (as well as any other effect you wish to play or game action you wish to take) can only be played when you have priority.
forum.tcgplayer.com /showthread.php?t=77606   (518 words)

  
 WWF Betrayal for Game Boy Color Reviews - Game Boy Color WWF Betrayal Reviews
WWF Betrayal was set back in the days when WWE was WWF, you know when wrestling was good and Wrsetling games were good.
Play as either Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, The Rock or Triple H. Basically the plot is you were fighting the title match (OMG!) but lost, and Vince McMahon's daughter Stephanie was kidknapped.
Only problem is, you have to play through 5 or 6 boring levels to do it.
www.gamespot.com /gbc/action/wwfbetrayal/player_review.html?id=302711   (602 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Byzantine: The Betrayal Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In Byzantine: The Betrayal, you play the role of a journalist summoned to the city of Istanbul, Turkey by an old college roommate and friend, named Emre.
Saying any more about the plot will give away some of the fun, so let me just say that you have to be careful with whom you trust.
The entire game is played using a combination of video that was taped on location and digital renderings of various interior and exterior locations.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=btb   (609 words)

  
 Betrayal (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Betrayal (play), a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978
Betrayal of the Left, a book of essays published in early 1941 by the Left Book Club
"Betrayal (movie)", a movie from 2003 with Erika Eleniak, Adam Baldwin and Julie Du Page.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betrayal_(disambiguation)   (144 words)

  
 Betrayal at House on the Hill
As one of twelve mysterious characters, you'll explore a house filled with deadly secrets.
With fifty fiendish scenarios, Betrayal at House on the Hill puts you face-to-face with legendary monsters, modern nightmares...
You can also play our online demo, read our series of detailed previews of Betrayal at House on the Hill, or read the online FAQ.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/prod/betrayalhouse   (93 words)

  
 The Mole Betrayal
Most of the action takes place on the message board so you might as well head on down there by clicking the link to your right.
Calling everybody who has ever wanted to play "The Mole" but couldn't because of various reasons, such as being Canadian, Under Age, blah, blah, blah.
If you want to play, click on the "Mole: Phase 1" link above and go to the Sign Up Sheet.
mole-betrayal.tripod.com   (143 words)

  
 Betrayal DVD Features
A faithful screen adaptation of Harold Pinter's play, which tells its story working backward in time, BETRAYAL is a riveting drama about a man who has been unfaithful with his best friend's wife for seven years.
The Bond franchise gets a reboot: "Casino Royale" features a return to 007's roots and, in Daniel Craig, a new man behind the martini.
Bale doffs cape and cowl to play the object of Hugh Jackman's intense hatred in "The Prestige," in theaters now.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1002203-betrayal/dvd.php   (218 words)

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