![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Penetrating strip lighting from above alternately exposes their faces and blots out their expressions by suddenly thrusting them into silhouette. Soutra Gilmour’s clean-lined sets and monochromatic costumes, along with Jon Clark’s extraordinarily suggestive lighting, are visual definitions of the 14-year marriage of Robert (Hiddleston) and Emma (Ashton), and the intrusive inclusion of Emma’s lover Jerry (Cox). And definitely not in the staging, which is the essence of minimalism. Certainly not in the language, which is so famously spare that even the pauses pulse with unspoken emotion and hidden meaning. It’s a daring approach, leaving the characters nowhere to hide. How can such a cool play make us sweat? Chalk it up to the incredible heat generated by the starry cast of Broadway’s latest “ Betrayal,” featuring Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton as a long-married couple and Charlie Cox as the secret lover.ĭirector Jamie Lloyd’s impeccable direction - now on Broadway, after a hot-ticket London run - strips Pinter’s 1978 play to its bare bones: the excruciating examination of the slow death of a marriage. ![]()
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