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Theatre

Watch Tom Hiddleston ruin Pinter’s finest play

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

No menace, no Venice. This new production of Pinter’s Betrayal is set on a bare stage with scant regard for the play’s physical requirements. The script specifies a handful of furnished locations: a pub, a study, a flat, a hotel bedroom, a living room. But instead we get an off-white void where three youngish actors prowl in circles, ogling each other.

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