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THE BASICS:  BETRAYAL, the 1978 play by Harold Pinter, directed by Greg Natale, starring Anthony Alcocer, Steve Copps, Aleks Malejs, and John Profeta. 2/23 – 3/17, Thu – Fri 7:30, Sat 3:00, Sun 2:00 at Irish Classical Theatre, 625 Main Street, Buffalo. 716-853-4282 irishclassical.com (https://buff.ly/3zzChiK)   Visit the website to see special performances, talk backs, etc  including Pay-What-You-Can Performances on Saturdays March 2,9, and16 (all at 7:30); a pre-show speaker event with Intimacy Director, Jessica Hillman-McCord on Sunday, March 3, at 1:30, a Community Matinee: Wednesday, March 13, at 10:00 am, and an Open Captioned Performance Thursday, March 14, at 7:30 pm. Runtime: 90 minutes, no intermission THUMBNAIL SKETCH:  Slowly, in rather casual conversations, often in restaurants at tables for two, we find that for four years Jerry (Anthony Alcocer) has/had been having an affair with Emma (Aleks Malejs) who is married to Robert (Steve Copps).  The play unfolds in reverse order, over seven years, quite sensational for the time (1978) ending, more or less, with Jerry and Emma’s first kiss.  THE PLAYERS, THE PLAY, AND THE PRODUCTION:  Pinter characters are often awful people, nasty, mean, and deceitful.  In this play, they are only deceitful.  Pinter characters often hide their emotions, and that’s true here, and only occasionally do we see either Jerry or Emma a little nervous about their affair being discovered by Robert.  So they are aware that their affair is not entirely a good thing, and that it might hurt Robert, but Emma continues to be Roberts’s wife and Jerry continues to be his best friend, although they don’t play squash anymore.  (In Pinter plays, a little thing like that can be very telling.) (https://lnkd.in/eDm-6nGr: Steve Copps, Aleks Malejs, Anthony Alcocer All the characters present as somewhat bored upper-class Brits who never raise their voices so it’s a bit difficult to access their inner conflicts.  But are they intrinsically “bad” people?  Director Greg Natale describes them simply as “not innocent.”  His Director’s Statement reads in part: “There are no innocents in BETRAYAL.  Pinter locks Robert and Emma, husband and wife, and Emma’s lover Jerry, her husband’s oldest and best friend, into a love triangle that leaves no one unscathed.

BETRAYAL by Pinter at Irish Classical presents infidelity in a very measured, proper, British fashion 

BETRAYAL by Pinter at Irish Classical presents infidelity in a very measured, proper, British fashion 

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