Some remarks about Betrayal. A new incarnation of Harold Pinter’s play at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London
Some remarks about Betrayal. A new incarnation of Harold Pinter’s play at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London

Summary/Abstract: Harold Pinter, one of the leading representatives of the theatre of the absurd, who is often bracketed with Samuel Beckett, and a 2005 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, successfully reveals in his works the impermanence of interpersonal relations, the conventions which govern social communication (which indeed turns out to be merely a game of appearances) and – perhaps above all – the loneliness of modern man. Pinter’s protagonists are helpless, they experience a situation of unspecified menace (as in the case of his early plays, which were referred to by Irving Wardle as a comedy of menace2 ) or in the situation of entanglement in infelicitous and non-authentic relations from which one cannot extricate oneself, as in the case of Betrayal, the work which constitutes the focus of the present text.

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