Betrayal (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (446)
See it if you like Pinter, you don't mind non-linear storytelling, you want to see three excellent actors take you for a journey throug their lives
Don't see it if you can't follow a story told in reverse order Read more
See it if you find Pinter incomprehensible as this production will change your mind.
Don't see it if you are expecting to see a star vehicle for Tom Hiddleston as he is simply one third of a perfect ensemble. Read more
See it if You want to see engaging, calibrated performances
Don't see it if You are uncomfortable with infidelity and it’s aftermath
See it if you want to see a revival of a fine Pinter play, with an excellent cast.
Don't see it if you are looking for mindless entertainment, this is art. Read more
See it if You want to see a beautifully acted and tender performance of this play. Minimal staging but beautiful lighting that enhanced the mood.
Don't see it if You don’t enjoy plays where you need to pay close attention to each word, each reaction, and each movement. Read more
See it if you want to see one of Pinter's masterworks brought to life with the focus being on the script. It's beautiful in its minimalism.
Don't see it if you don't like straight plays or don't enjoy plays that use time in a non lineal way.
See it if you're ready to eat crow after years of dismissing Pinter's time-reversed deconstruction of a love triangle. This version is quite engaging.
Don't see it if you've been cheated on recently. This British import plucks the titular theme's chord repeatedly and assuredly. (Yes, I shed a few tears.) Read more
See it if you like a complex bond bet men thru intermediary of the same woman,in reverse order of events. Terrific acting,directing,staging&lighting.
Don't see it if you are not fond of pauses/slow diolagues typical of Pinter ! You do not think you may be hurt by the one you love.
Critic Reviews (35)
"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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"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 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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