
Betrayal
4.2 (29) · Modern
Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom Hiddleston stars in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal
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Overview
With poetic precision, rich humour and an extraordinary emotional force, Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. Described as “the greatest, and the most moving, of all Pinter’s plays” (Daily Telegraph), this production marks the culmination of the Jamie Lloyd Company’s ground-breaking Pinter at the Pinter season.
Critic reviews
Tom Hiddleston conveys unhealed emotional wounds in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Harold Pinter’s play
Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox star in a stylish, controlled and superbly performed production of Pinter's play
Jamie Lloyd’s Tom Hiddleston-starring production of Pinter’s masterpiece is haunting and profound
A magnificent, searing account of Pinter's most autobiographically charged play
Tom Hiddleston displays a hypnotic sensitivity in this modern masterpiece
The audience plays voyeur and co-conspirator, drawn into the deceit and subsequent damage
The stripped-back stage leaves the exquisitely cast Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox and Tom Hiddleston with nowhere to hide
Tom Hiddleston's poise and sensitivity impress in elegant Pinter finale
Tom Hiddleston excels in a brilliant performance
It is Betrayal as I've never seen it before, and like this entire season, it bathes Pinter in a brilliant new light
Pinter’s study of adultery, staged with icy persuasiveness by Jamie Lloyd