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Theatre listings > The Last Of The Classic Seasons. Playwright - Harold Pinter Recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize For Literature. Director - Andy Arnold. Further Details and Cast List - Here. Company - The Arches Theatre Company Website. Venue - The Arches Theatre, Glasgow. Dates - 20 Oct - 5 Nov not Suns at 7.30pm. Run Time - 1 hours 20 mins no interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Surviving our betrayals. The play jumps back in years, but within each year it goes forward, so we see Emma and Jerry after their affair has ended long before we see them first exchange a passionate kiss. A strange approach to story telling? Not really. After all we can only live a moment once, but recalling it? That we can do again and again all our lives - past relationships haunt many that way. Betrayal was the first play written by Harold Pinter after his marriage broke up amongst the media and arts London circle. Emma and Jerry have their flat for afternoon liaisons in Kilburn where no other self-regarding literati would go voluntarily - Jerry's literary agent, Robert his best friend is a publisher and Emma? Well she's involved in running an art gallery latterly. She and Robert have children and a marriage in common while Jerry's married to Judith and they have kids too. It's a picture of the chattering classes when the lines of communication are used to not reveal the truth. What we see is terribly civilised. Though Robert admits to hitting Emma once or twice after he found out, even when every one knows what's going on they don't fall out. Jerry and Robert meet for lunch and chat, they don't knee one another in the crotch, they barely even parry with talk about other things. Emma's the woman they share along with their friendship, in Selina Boyack's hands she has a brittle almost frozen demeanour, underneath through the cracks you glimpse a woman pained with unacknowledged sadness. Robert Clyde's Robert almost makes us forget his own betrayal by his air of a toned down army type not wanting to admit the little woman isn't totally enamoured. Suave and Teflon-like Nik Wardzynski's Jerry moves through the play as untouched as the other man they share a lazy approach to commitment. Four finely pitched performances, directed by Andy Arnold, of this very humane play about ultimately unpassionate people, leaves you wanting to kick their sad, blinkered, shutdown selves till you realise that's how so many of us survive our betrayals. © Thelma Good 24 October 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast - Betrayal - Emma - Selina Boyack, Jerry - Nik Wardzynski, Robert - Stephen Clyde and Waiter - Neil Anderson. Rest of Creative Team. Design Consultant - Maria Ledinskaya. Lighting Designer - trane-house-red. Costume Designer - Fi Carrington. Assistant Director - Laura Bissell. Associate Designer - Will Holt. Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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