{"id":112487,"date":"2026-10-28T01:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/copy-of-peter-pan-goes-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:42:15","slug":"betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- BETRAYAL \u2014 COMPLETE REVIEW WITH RED OUTLINED BOX --><\/p>\n<style>\n.fae-betrayal-review {<br \/>  color: #222;<br \/>  line-height: 1.48;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review p {<br \/>  margin: 0 0 11px !important;<br \/>  line-height: 1.48 !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-hero {<br \/>  text-align: center;<br \/>  margin: 0 0 5px !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-hero img {<br \/>  display: block;<br \/>  width: 100%;<br \/>  max-width: 700px;<br \/>  height: auto;<br \/>  margin: 0 auto;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-caption,<br \/>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-pullquote,<br \/>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-section {<br \/>  display: block;<br \/>  text-align: center !important;<br \/>  color: #cc0000 !important;<br \/>  font-weight: 700 !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-caption {<br \/>  font-size: 15pt;<br \/>  line-height: 1.3;<br \/>  margin: 6px 0 17px !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-pullquote {<br \/>  font-size: 13pt;<br \/>  line-height: 1.4;<br \/>  margin: 15px 0 !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-section {<br \/>  font-size: 16pt;<br \/>  line-height: 1.35;<br \/>  margin: 20px 0 10px !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-chronology {<br \/>  box-sizing: border-box;<br \/>  width: 100%;<br \/>  margin: 12px 0;<br \/>  padding: 10px 14px;<br \/>  background: #fff9ef;<br \/>  border: 1px solid #cc0000 !important;<br \/>  border-radius: 5px;<br \/>  color: #222;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-chronology-grid {<br \/>  display: grid;<br \/>  grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));<br \/>  gap: 16px;<br \/>  font-size: 12px;<br \/>  line-height: 1.55;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-chronology-grid > div {<br \/>  min-width: 0;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-act-heading {<br \/>  color: #a50000;<br \/>  font-weight: bold;<br \/>  border-bottom: 1px solid #dec8bb;<br \/>  margin-bottom: 5px;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-photo {<br \/>  text-align: center;<br \/>  margin: 15px 0 !important;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review .fae-photo img {<br \/>  display: block;<br \/>  width: 100%;<br \/>  max-width: 800px;<br \/>  height: auto;<br \/>  margin: 0 auto;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.fae-betrayal-review hr {<br \/>  margin: 16px 0;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>@media (max-width: 480px) {<br \/>  .fae-betrayal-review .fae-chronology-grid {<br \/>    grid-template-columns: 1fr;<br \/>    gap: 10px;<br \/>  }<br \/>}<br \/><\/style>\n<div class=\"fae-betrayal-review\">\n<p><!-- STAR RATING --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 9px;\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- HERO IMAGE --><\/p>\n<p class=\"fae-hero\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Betrayal-1024x432.jpg\" alt=\"Betrayal at Marin Theatre\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- HERO CAPTION --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fae-caption\" style=\"color: #cc0000; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">The Banality of Infidelity<\/div>\n<p><!-- OPENING --><\/p>\n<p>There is an old saying: <strong>Time reveals all things.<\/strong> In Harold Pinter&#8217;s <em>Betrayal<\/em>, time does something more interesting: <strong>it runs backward.<\/strong> A flashback ordinarily takes us into the past to explain the present, but Pinter turns that familiar theatrical device on its head. Here, the past isn&#8217;t an occasional detour. <strong>It&#8217;s the destination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watching <em>Betrayal<\/em> is like peeling an onion. Each scene strips away another layer of deception, revealing what lies beneath. But Pinter&#8217;s final layer is the beginning itself. We begin with the wreckage of a love affair and travel backward toward its origins. The further back we go, the more we discover how little we understood.<\/p>\n<p><!-- EXPLANATORY CHRONOLOGY BOX --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fae-chronology\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cc0000; border-radius: 5px; padding: 10px 14px; margin: 12px 0; background: #fff9ef;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center; color: #a50000; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3;\">Betrayal: A Story in Reverse<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; color: #555; font-size: 12px; margin: 4px 0 10px;\">London, England \u2022 Venice, Italy<\/div>\n<div class=\"fae-chronology-grid\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"fae-act-heading\">ACT I<\/div>\n<div>1. <strong>1977<\/strong> \u2014 Pub<\/div>\n<div>2. <strong>1977<\/strong> \u2014 Jerry&#8217;s study<\/div>\n<div>3. <strong>1975<\/strong> \u2014 Flat<\/div>\n<div>4. <strong>1974<\/strong> \u2014 Living room<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"fae-act-heading\">ACT II<\/div>\n<div>5. <strong>1973<\/strong> \u2014 Venice hotel, Italy<\/div>\n<div>6. <strong>1973<\/strong> \u2014 Flat<\/div>\n<div>7. <strong>1973<\/strong> \u2014 Restaurant<\/div>\n<div>8. <strong>1971<\/strong> \u2014 Flat<\/div>\n<div>9. <strong>1968<\/strong> \u2014 Bedroom<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; color: #a50000; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; border-top: 1px solid #dec8bb; margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 8px;\">The ending is the beginning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- PLOT --><\/p>\n<p>Emma is married to Robert. Jerry is Robert&#8217;s best friend\u2014and Emma&#8217;s lover. Their affair lasts 7 years. As the story moves backward, we discover that knowledge itself has been unequally shared. Those who appear deceived may be concealing secrets of their own. The question becomes not merely who betrayed whom, but who knew what, when they knew it\u2014and why they remained silent.<\/p>\n<p><!-- DIRECTION AND SET --><\/p>\n<p>Director <strong>Carey Perloff<\/strong>, who worked personally with Pinter, brings a sure understanding of his distinctive theatrical language to Marin Theatre. <strong>The set is brilliantly conceived.<\/strong> A double bed sits on a raised platform at center stage\u2014a <strong>proscenium altar to infidelity.<\/strong> There it remains, a silent witness to deception, damaged friendship, and the corrosion of trust.<\/p>\n<p><!-- PULL QUOTE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fae-pullquote\" style=\"color: #cc0000; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">The bed never moves, while time moves relentlessly backward.<\/div>\n<p><!-- PERFORMANCES --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz Sklar as Emma, Charlie Semine as Robert, and Tasso Feldman as Jerry<\/strong> deliver accomplished individual performances. Nic Moore completes the cast as the Waiter. Yet something curious happens when the three principals share the stage: <strong>the emotional chemistry seems to evaporate.<\/strong> We are watching the aftermath of a 7-year affair, but where is the passion that sustained it?<\/p>\n<p>Is this a shortcoming of the production\u2014or Pinter&#8217;s deliberate portrait of people for whom intimacy has become another form of deception?<\/p>\n<p><!-- CENTRAL CRITICAL OBSERVATION --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fae-section\" style=\"color: #cc0000; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">The Banality of Betrayal<\/div>\n<p>What is most unsettling is the extraordinary ordinariness of it all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- PULL QUOTE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fae-pullquote\" style=\"color: #cc0000; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">They talk. They drink. They reminisce. They betray. And life goes on.<\/div>\n<p>I confess to a personal antipathy toward such casual infidelity. The destruction of trust strikes me as profoundly corrosive\u2014not only to relationships, but to the people involved. Perhaps that is Pinter&#8217;s most disturbing insight. Betrayal need not be accompanied by grand passion, dramatic confrontation, or even much apparent guilt. It can become almost routine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS --><\/p>\n<p class=\"fae-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Betrayal_Review_Refined.gif\" alt=\"Betrayal production photographs. Photos by David Allen.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The production features excellent scenic and projection design by Yuki Izumihara, lighting by Russell Champa, sound by Fiona Sharkey, and original music by Jack Perla.<\/p>\n<p><!-- MUSIC AND SILENCE --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What can you say when a love affair is over?&#8221; asks Ant\u00f4nio Carlos Jobim&#8217;s haunting song <em>How Insensitive<\/em>. Pinter offers an unsettling answer: <strong>Perhaps the most revealing things are those never said at all.<\/strong> His characters conceal as much in their pauses as in their words. An innocent question may mask a devastating truth. A casual conversation can become an exercise in mutual deception.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONCLUSION --><\/p>\n<p>By the final scene\u2014which is actually the beginning\u2014we understand these people differently. Each revelation has changed the meaning of what came after. That is the paradox of this production: excellent acting, ingenious dramatic construction, and relationships strangely devoid of warmth. Perhaps that absence is precisely the point.<\/p>\n<p><em>Betrayal<\/em> begins with the consequences and ends with the cause. By then, Pinter has stripped away every layer of deception\u2014leaving us to wonder whether these people ever truly knew one another.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- PRODUCTION INFORMATION --><\/p>\n<p><em>Betrayal<\/em> by Harold Pinter<br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> Carey Perloff<br \/>\nThrough November 15<br \/>\nMarin Theatre, 397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley<br \/>\n$39\u2013$110, plus $6 handling fee per order<br \/>\n<strong>Box Office:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/marintheatre.org\">MarinTheatre.org<\/a><br \/>\n415-388-5208<\/p>\n<p><!-- RECOMMENDATION --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fae-pullquote\" style=\"color: #cc0000; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">Recommended for lovers of intelligent drama, psychological intrigue, and sophisticated theater.<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- FEEDBACK --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe class=\"fae-feedback-iframe\" title=\"Reader Feedback\" src=\"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=fae_feedback_iframe&#038;post_id=112487\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:780px;border:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:12px;box-shadow:0 6px 24px rgba(0,0,0,.08);\" height=\"620\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- AUTHOR SIGNATURE --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JoeCilloBlue600x230-1-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Cillo banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Banality of Infidelity There is an old saying: Time reveals all things. 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