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
