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| | 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... |
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