CTB: Betrayal – Harold Pinter

Betrayal could be the story of a love triangle written with the British phlegm and unflappable humor of a Londoner. It could be a disquieting comedy about the fragility of love or the photograph revealed in the room of everyday threats. But Betrayal is, above all, a life story, the mirror in which the biographical account is contemplated in altered chronology to emphasize the irreversible, an inexorable chronicle of fear. Because that’s what love and its consequences can be too. A story of fear: fear of commitment; fear of disappointment; fear of abandonment; fear of uncertainty; fear of the fatigue of emotional bonds. 

Written over the course of 1978, in Betrayal we are continually confronted with sobriety in the dialogues, an atmosphere of laconic calm, but in which is hidden a river of hidden emotions, unbridled motivations, vanities, self-deception, the use of cold, dry, cultivated, English language.  

Author Harold Pinter 

Staging Manuel Guede Oliva 

Set design Acácio de Carvalho 

Sound operation Sepehr Mousavi 

Construction and editing Fernando Gomes 

Cast Solange Sá, Eduarda Filipa, André Laires, Rogério Boane