ABSTRACT
Betrayal, a play in nine scenes, represents yet another major breakthrough in structure. Here Pinter takes his concern with the past and changes the form of drama: to allow the happy beginning of the affair to color the ending and illuminate how the past persists into the present. Betrayal begins after the end of an affair between Emma and her husband’s best friend Jerry and ends with the seduction that brought them together at Emma and Robert’s anniversary party nine years earlier.
