It’s been only five years since Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” was seen on Broadway, but there’s a reason
actors are drawn to it: the play traces the life of an extramarital affair, but in reverse chronology, from
the bitter end to the fizzy beginning. When it first opened, in 1980, Raul Julia and Blythe Danner were
the illicit lovers and Roy Scheider the cuckolded husband. A new revival (in previews, at the Jacobs),
directed by Jamie Lloyd, features Charlie Cox, Zawe Ashton, and the “Avengers” star Tom Hiddleston.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PARI DUKOVIC
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
AUGUST 28– SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
