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Harold Pinter wrote Betrayal in 1978. The play tells the story of a classic three-cornered relationship in which Emma has been cheating on her husband Robert for seven years by having an affair with his best friend Jerry.
Pinter uses an unusually dramatic structure the play begins at the end and ends at the beginning to explore themes like loyalty, insincerity and self-deception. He presents characters who are caught up in the untenability of an all-consuming passion, who struggle against the inevitable mediocrity of their daily lives, who want to live grandly in a world that is too small. As if with a scalpel, he exposes the pride and longings, the lies and weaknesses of his characters, and, in that laconic and ruthless style at which he excels, succeeds both in glorifying and ridiculing love. In this way Pinter elevates the prosaicness of human relations to poetry.
So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
Like a deceived husband; so love’s face
May still seem love to me, though alter’d new;
Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place:
For there can live no hatred in thine eye,
Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.
In many’s looks the false heart’s history
Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange,
But heaven in thy creation did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate’er thy thoughts or thy heart’s workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell.
How like Eve’s apple doth thy beauty grow,
If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 93
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In French
text ‘Betrayal’ by Harold Pinter
French text Eric Kahane
by and with Robby Cleiren, Jolente De Keersmaeker and Frank Vercruyssen
lighting design Thomas Walgrave
costumes Ann D’Huys
technique Tim Wouters
production tg STAN
premiere of Dutch version 19 October 2011, Monty, Antwerp
premiere of French version 15 May 2014, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse
Bedrog (Betrayal)
“Bedrog is intimate, scintillating repertoire theatre to enjoy with a possibly secret lover at your side.”
Els van Steenberghe, Knack.be, October 20th 2011
“Tg STAN announced they would be staging a repertoire piece: Pinters Betrayal . And we got just what we were hoping for: a no-nonsense approach, a lively script and great acting. STAN through and through”
Griet Op De Beeck, De Morgen, October 20th 2011
“… what is clear about this production is the mastery with which Pinter constructed the script. And that mastery is matched by the mastery of the people who made this production. It’s STAN at their very best.”
Peter Haex, www.steeds.nu, October 24th 2011
“In Bedrog (Betrayal) STAN gives a classic an airing. What seems to be a series of trite conversations is in fact a stratified play about truth and lies.”
Wouter Hillaert, De Standaard, October 25th 2011
“… here we see a casual acceptance of the recognition that all human relationships are based on egoism. These three wonderful actors, who have no difficulty whatsoever in being pleasant and likeable, illustrate this with suspenseful and at times even dazzling acting.”
Hein Janssen, De Volkskrant, November 4th 2011
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