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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      This edition reset in 2013 with small amendments from the Faber and Faber Limited edition originally published in 1991 in Great Britain.

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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