Betrayal. Harold Pinter
Betrayal
By the same author
PLAYS
Ashes to Ashes • Betrayal • The Birthday Party • The Caretaker • Celebration and the Room • The Collection and the Lover • The Homecoming •
The Hothouse • Landscape And Silence • Mountain Language • Moonlight • No Man’s Land • Old Times • One For The Road • Other Places (A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, Family Voices) • Party Time • Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis) • The Room and the Dumb Waiter • A Slight Ache and Other Plays • Tea Party and Other Plays
Plays One
(The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, “The Black and White,” “The Examination”)
Plays Two
(The Caretaker, The Dwarfs, The Collection, The Lover, Night School, Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, Request Stop, Last to Go, Special Offer)
Plays Three
(The Homecoming, Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence, Night, That’s Your Trouble, That’s All, Applicant, Interview, Dialogue for Three, “Tea Party,” Old Times, No Man’s Land)
Plays Four
(Betrayal, Monologue, One for the Road, Mountain Language, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, Precisely, The New World Order, Party Time, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes, Celebration, Umbrellas, God’s District, Apart from That)
SCREENPLAYS
Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays One
(The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Last Tycoon, Langrishe, Go Down)
Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays Two
(The Go-Between, The Proust Screenplay, Victory, Turtle Diary, Reunion)
Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays Three
(The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Heat of the Day, The Comfort of Strangers, The Trial, The Dreaming Child)
PROSE, POETRY AND POLITICS
The Dwarfs (a novel)
100 Poems by 100 Poets (an anthology)
99 Poems in Translation (an anthology)
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2005
War
HAROLD PINTER
Betrayal
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New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pinter, Harold, 1930–
Betrayal.
I. Title.
PR6066.I53B4 1979 822’.9’14 78-65251
ISBN 978-0-8021-3080-8 (pbk.)
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8021-9228-8
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Betrayal was first produced by the National Theatre, London, on 15 June 1978, with the following cast:
EMMA: Penelope Wilton
JERRY: Michael Gambon
ROBERT: Daniel Massey
A WAITER: Artro Morris
A BARMAN: Glenn Williams
Directed by Peter Hall
Designed by John Bury
The play was produced at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 17 January 1991, with the following cast:
EMMA: Cheryl Campbell
JERRY: Bill Nighy
ROBERT: Martin Shaw
A WAITER: Stefano Gressieux
Directed by David Leveaux
Designed by Mark Thompson
It was produced in the Lyttelton auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 24 November 1998, with the following cast:
EMMA: Imogen Stubbs
JERRY: Douglas Hodge
ROBERT: Anthony Calf
A WAITER: Arturo Venegas
Directed by Trevor Nunn
Designed by Es Devlin
It was produced by the Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal, Bath, on 9 July 2003, with the following cast:
EMMA: Janie Dee
JERRY: Aden Gillett
ROBERT: Hugo Speer
A WAITER: James Supervia
Directed by Peter Hall
Designed by John Gunter
This production transferred to the Duchess Theatre, London, on 8 October 2003.
It was produced at the Donmar Warehouse, London, on 21 July 2007, with the following cast:
EMMA: Dervla Kirwan
JERRY: Toby