First date sold out, extra date added. Kristin Scott Thomas, Douglas Henshall and Ben Miles star in Ian Rickson's revival of Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL at the Comedy Theatre. Come on our Whatsonstage.com Club Group Night on 9 August 2011, with top-price tickets available to Club members.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Famously played backwards in time, BETRAYAL one of Pinter’s most revived plays, traces a seven-year affair between art gallery owner Emma and literary agent Jerry, the best friend of her publisher husband Robert, from its poignant end to its first illicit kiss.
Betrayal premiered at the National Theatre in 1978 with a cast comprising Daniel Massey, Michael Gambon and Penelope Wilton the production was last seen in London at the Donmar Warehouse in 2007, where it starred Dervla Kirwan. David Jones directed the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated film adaptation of the piece in 1983 with Patricia Hodge, Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley.
Kristin Scott Thomas, a two-time Whatsonstage.com Award winner for her performances in As You Desire Me and Three Sisters both at the Playhouse, was last seen on stage playing Arkadina in The Seagull at the Royal Court Theatre for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress. She went on to reprise the role on Broadway the following year. Her extensive film credits include Nowhere Boy, Easy Virtue, The Other Boleyn Girl, Gosford Park, The Horse Whisperer, The English Patient, Mission Impossible, Angels & Insects and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Douglas Henshall is best known on television for playing Nick Cutter in the long running ITV series Primeval. His recent stage credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Cryptogram, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and The Coast of Utopia. His television credits also include South Riding, The Silence, The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis, Collision and Psychos.
Ben Miles was last on stage Measure for Measure at the Almeida. His theatre credits include The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic and on Broadway, My Child, Richard II, The Cherry Orchard, The London Cuckolds, Mary Stuart, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. His television credits include leading roles in Coupling, Lark Rise to Candleford, Freezing and Sex, The City and Me, Prime Suspect, Hustle, Sea of Souls and Trial and Retribution.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and recipient of the Companion of Honour in 2002 Harold Pinter wrote 32 plays, 22 screenplays and directed 36 theatre productions prior to his death in 2008.
source:whatsonstage.com
