Betrayal NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (439)
See it if you love Pinter revivals. It's stylishly barebones. Belongs in a sm setting. Acting is fine. It's slow/long. Horrible story abt selfish peo.
Don't see it if you don't care abt spoiled rich people. No one is likable. Love seems to only be lust. Action drags!Cut line abt "itch" to "bash" wife. Ugh!
See it if u want to see an elegant, brooding, sparsely-staged, expertly-acted, emotionally complex Pinter drama about truth & deception & infidelity.
Don't see it if u prefer ur love-triangle dramas full of mushy sentiment & histrionics (or superhero excessiveness) vs Pinteresque stiff-upper-lip stoicism.
Critic Reviews (35)
CRITIC’S PICK "Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’:
Mr. Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox portray three friends in flux in Jamie Lloyd’s revelatory interpretation of a Harold Pinter classic."
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3/5 Stars "Pinter's bone-dry, stiff-lipped tale of infidelity relies upon the audience's faith: It effectively asks that we take its word that these characters are interesting, and invest in them accordingly. But what if we don't? What if these three people...what if they merely bore us?"
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"A High-Powered New 'Betrayal'"
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"Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox play the three points of Harold Pinter's adulterous triangle in Jamie Lloyd's superb production from London."
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B+ "Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton command a smart, stripped down 'Betrayal'"
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"The impeccable London revival of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” with Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton, transfers to Broadway."
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"Pinter Without Pauses: The latest Broadway production of the play is drawing sellout crowds thanks to its star power—but not because of any dramatic excitement."
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"Stylish, earnest, but off-the-mark... Director Jamie Lloyd and the cast decided to drag Pinter's subtext out of the shadows and plop it center stage...It's the fanciest acting class in the world, getting Pinter wrong."
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"Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox & Zawe Ashton In Pinter’s Affair To Remember"
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3/4 Stars. "A sexy Tom Hiddleston leads Broadway’s ‘Betrayal’"
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"Tom Hiddleston is perfectly cast in riveting revival of Harold Pinter’s 'Betrayal' on Broadway"
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3.5/4 Stars "Jamie Lloyd, cast triumph with superb Harold Pinter revival on Broadway"
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"'Betrayal' is an engrossingly intimate portrait of spouses and friends in the throes of adultery. By play's end, it's poignantly clear that the three characters will have to pay a steep price for their dishonesty. What could so easily come off like soap opera in lesser hands rises in this production to the level of modern tragedy."
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"Broadway Continues Its Love Affair With 'Betrayal' — I Try to Understand It"
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"Director Jamie Lloyd's Subtle Way With Harold Pinter's 'BETRAYAL' Makes For Riveting Storytelling: Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox bring their tightly wound London performances to Broadway"
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"Jamie Lloyd's staging lays bare the play's elegant bones, the tightly knotted network of lies and evasions in which its characters are so unhappily entangled. As Lloyd and his excellent trio of actors make devastatingly clear, the use of the singular in the title is an understatement; this is a drama rife with betrayals…"
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"Memories? Dreams? Sessions with a psychotherapist? There are many ways to parse the latest Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's oft-revived and endlessly fascinating 1978 play 'Betrayal,' opening tonight at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in a brilliantly choreographed production."
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4/5 Stars "Pinter's Web of Deception Returns to Broadway, Incisively: Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton star in Jamie Lloyd's London transfer"
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5/5 Stars "Less Is More in This London-Born Revival: Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox make a beguiling love triangle in Harold Pinter's backward-spinning drama"
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"To Lloyd’s credit, and that of this spectacular cast, we never lose sight of the ways in which these three lives are ineradicably interwoven, giving more power to the emptiness and emotional wreckage their actions have wrought – despite their best attempts to be so very British about it all."
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"After the misfires of previous productions, someone finally gets this play right."
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"A love triangle turns inward in ‘Betrayal’"
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"Hiddleston as Robert far surpasses his most famous reputation as Loki in both Thor and The Avengers, giving a nuanced and ever-changing performance, and Cox as Jerry also finds subtleties that elude most actors, as their characters undergo constant changes."
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"While 'Betrayal' thrives on Pinter's extraordinary writing and minimalist storytelling, this production exceeds those boundaries...Cox and Hiddleston are magnificent...[as is] Ashton's stunning performance as Emma, who seems to waver between strength and the verge of breakdown."
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"Jamie Lloyd directs a compelling, minimalist take on Pinter's play with impressive Broadway debuts by Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston."
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"A triangle built with a ballet-like precision within a circle against a long rectangular wall. This is the essence of this masterful revival. They are poised for interaction from that first visual, one by one, in pairs (for the most part), as directed with tight thoughtfulness by the gifted Jamie Lloyd."
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"I'd be content to see the play once a decade, and I saw the last Broadway revival just six years ago..The latest…restores the British reserve. It's nearly an understatement to call the production minimalist…The cast is perfectly appealing. But their delivery is… slowly paced and at an odd remove."
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"Director Jamie Lloyd's stunning Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's 1978 infidelity play moves like lava, captivating and consuming its audience with blistering sexual tension."
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"Furthermore, how Robert manages to maintain some form of his long friendship with Jerry after he discovers the affair might also mystify some audiences. Credit for that definitely goes to Cox, in the evening's best performance, who gives Jerry a bit of a lost puppy-dog quality that goes a long way to making Robert's actions believable."
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"The brilliance of the acting…in Jamie Lloyd's unconventionally minimalist…staging only serves to emphasize the play's technical glitter over its emotional heartbeat…Hiddleston…is in his element…in digging into Pinter's pregnant pauses, elliptical sentences, and subtextual currents."
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"Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox are the men fighting over Zawe Ashton in the London revival of Harold Pinter's consummately structured love triangle."
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"Tom Hiddleston in ‘Betrayal’ A love triangle twists and turns inside out in director Jamie Lloyd’s revelatory Pinter revival, starring Tom Hiddleston."
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★★★★★ "The star power certainly works, but it's just one aspect of the brilliance of this last instalment. Lloyd's direction, combined with the depths of the intricacies of the text, is enough to make the show a well-rounded success of its own."
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★★★★★ "Jamie Lloyd’s Tom Hiddleston-starring production of Pinter’s masterpiece is haunting and profound."
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