Stage | The Guardian: I didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on stage until after I’d read it. I’m pleased about that – it means I’d “seen” it for myself first. The play is about a married couple, Robert and Emma, and the affair that she has with his best friend, Jerry. It has a reverse chronology, starting in the present day when the affair is over and ending years earlier as it begins, and shows what each of them knows or doesn’t know over the course of that time. I immediately thought: this is how I want to write.
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I greatly enjoyed reading about this performance. The shows that I enjoy the most are the shows that are the shows that are outside of the box. There are so many shows that are out there that go from start, middle, end; and yes those stories are most of theaters backbone are built on those stories, but what happens when you have so many of the same type of story. Tell the story from a different perspective. Telling a story in reserve order gives the audience privileged knowledge that makes it more interesting to them. When the audience gets privileged knowledge that some, most, or all of the characters do not know yet, it gives the audience's mind to fully think about the actions and what might be the charaters do in reaction to finding out this information, in doing so the audience gets a chance to come up with how they think the characters will react and by default forcing the audience to think deeper about the piece and the meaning behind it.
- Eliana Stevens
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