There are so many that have been rehashed for various sites including this one originally from Reuters. I keep thinking I've found something new when its not...Dunda wrote:I've lost track of what is already posted or not
http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/2013/10/28/21228181.html
Betrayal - member and critics reviews.
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Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas
http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/2 ... -main-lead
http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/2 ... -main-lead
thank you to@all of you here for keeping us updated with everything about the play!
In one review there was a line like..."James Bond requires .007% of his talent" (playbill). IMO, this line is it. Well done, Mr Craig. And doing perform on stage means to have a real audience in front of you and every day the curtain goes up will be a new day.
In one review there was a line like..."James Bond requires .007% of his talent" (playbill). IMO, this line is it. Well done, Mr Craig. And doing perform on stage means to have a real audience in front of you and every day the curtain goes up will be a new day.
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OK, finally had the time to read it. It remains interesting and somewhat fascinating, that this production is - apart from being mostly very well received - such a mix of different, very opposite opinions.
I suppose, Mike is pro enough to have known, that this way of doing it, would not please everybody. We know Daniel, he doesn't give a damn - they did, what they felt was right.
I suppose, Mike is pro enough to have known, that this way of doing it, would not please everybody. We know Daniel, he doesn't give a damn - they did, what they felt was right.
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
I am not sure if this review has been posted:
http://newyorktheater.me/2013/11/01/bet ... liberties/
http://newyorktheater.me/2013/11/01/bet ... liberties/
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This production of BETRAYAL deserves a much longer run. It is fantastic. The acting is real, honest and deeply emotional and you cannot help but be amazed at how you are drawn into their lives as they try to remember and make sense of what they have wrought.
http://www.talkentertainment.com/c-4687 ... Spall.aspx
http://www.talkentertainment.com/c-4687 ... Spall.aspx
There is a review posted in the Express which says it is by Mark Shanton but I think it must be Mark Shenton.
Betrayal review: Brits take over New York
No wonder that the busiest of all international routes out of Heathrow is the one from London to New York.
Those planes are full of British actors heading to appear on Broadway (and people like me going to see them there).
Right now, the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Julius Caesar is playing at Brooklyn’s St Ann’s Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe is previewing its productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III, both starring Mark Rylance, on Broadway, and Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are reprising their West End production of Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, which is now being joined in repertoire by a new production of Pinter’s No Man’s Land, in which they also star.
Yet it is another Pinter revival that is making all the headlines with its star trio of British stage and screen stars and setting new highs for premium tickets of a whopping £311 each.
Given that Betrayal runs for just 90 minutes, that is £3.44 a minute but people are paying it because this is the sort of celebrity package of which a theatre producer’s dreams are made, even if the play is about the nightmares in which people’s relationships become entangled.
This brooding, searing and stinging play is an aria of pain and deceit as it rewinds from the dissolution of a seven-year affair between a woman and her husband’s best friend, to its very beginning.
It is given a riveting additional charge by being played here by a real husband and wife; the movie star (and one-time alumnus of the National Theatre) Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, with rising star Rafe Spall as the man she becomes smitten with.
This is a dark, disturbing play, and all three actors cast a wary, wounded spell on each other and us.
It has also been stunningly packaged in a Broadway staging that glides between locations with astonishing grace in Ian MacNeil’s sets.
It has become a New York must-see.
BETRAYAL 4/5
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/ ... r-New-York
Betrayal review: Brits take over New York
No wonder that the busiest of all international routes out of Heathrow is the one from London to New York.
Those planes are full of British actors heading to appear on Broadway (and people like me going to see them there).
Right now, the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Julius Caesar is playing at Brooklyn’s St Ann’s Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe is previewing its productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III, both starring Mark Rylance, on Broadway, and Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are reprising their West End production of Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, which is now being joined in repertoire by a new production of Pinter’s No Man’s Land, in which they also star.
Yet it is another Pinter revival that is making all the headlines with its star trio of British stage and screen stars and setting new highs for premium tickets of a whopping £311 each.
Given that Betrayal runs for just 90 minutes, that is £3.44 a minute but people are paying it because this is the sort of celebrity package of which a theatre producer’s dreams are made, even if the play is about the nightmares in which people’s relationships become entangled.
This brooding, searing and stinging play is an aria of pain and deceit as it rewinds from the dissolution of a seven-year affair between a woman and her husband’s best friend, to its very beginning.
It is given a riveting additional charge by being played here by a real husband and wife; the movie star (and one-time alumnus of the National Theatre) Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, with rising star Rafe Spall as the man she becomes smitten with.
This is a dark, disturbing play, and all three actors cast a wary, wounded spell on each other and us.
It has also been stunningly packaged in a Broadway staging that glides between locations with astonishing grace in Ian MacNeil’s sets.
It has become a New York must-see.
BETRAYAL 4/5
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/ ... r-New-York
Probably nothing new but there's a collection of reviews on the BBC website: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24801732
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Daniel Craig's Betrayal impresses in Broadway
http://ewn.co.za/2013/10/29/Daniel-Crai ... um=twitter
http://ewn.co.za/2013/10/29/Daniel-Crai ... um=twitter
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.d ... ngPd_mUQnM
Joining them, as the third party in the triangle is Rafe Spall, also making his Broadway debut. Kind of have to feel for the guy. After the show, conversations alluded to "Daniel Craig" and "The not Daniel Craig guy." Even more intimidating must be having to get rather intimate with James Bond's wife...
Joining them, as the third party in the triangle is Rafe Spall, also making his Broadway debut. Kind of have to feel for the guy. After the show, conversations alluded to "Daniel Craig" and "The not Daniel Craig guy." Even more intimidating must be having to get rather intimate with James Bond's wife...
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
Another review:
http://m.theepochtimes.com/n3/348845-th ... -betrayal/
http://m.theepochtimes.com/n3/348845-th ... -betrayal/
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Ooooofff! And there I was thinking the reviews were going better. This one is horrid. Is there anything she likes about it, I wonder, apart from the costumes?! It just shows you can't please everyone.... Makes me wonder if she went along determined to dislike it, because it was DC and maybe she was expecting Bond?cassandra wrote:Another review:
http://m.theepochtimes.com/n3/348845-th ... -betrayal/
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