Betrayal
By Harold Pinter
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Desire…. Deceit… Betrayal!
Harold Pinter’s modern classic is a scintillating tale of friendship, love and adultery set in the world of writing and literature.
Jerry is having an affair with Emma! However, Emma is the wife of Jerry’s best friend Robert! Will Robert ever find out? Will the affair test Jerry and Robert’s friendship to breaking point? Are Emma and Jerry really in love or is it just…… Betrayal?
Journeying from a cosmopolitan London to Mediterranean Venice and back, moving backwards and forwards in time, Pinter’s play captures the grand passions and the sly maneuverings of the human heart. Rumoured to be based on Pinter’s alleged affair with BBC presenter Joan Bakewell this is the classic love triangle with a twist. Dramatically ironic and painfully funny this is Pinter at his best and is a must see.
Cast & Creatives
Claire Swinburne

Paul Albertson
After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Paul became a leading actor for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre over a period of ten years, playing such roles as Jimmy Porter, Jean in Miss Julie, Lenny in the Homecoming, Nero in Britannicus and Joey in Pal Joey.
For Rapture: The Browning Version, Betrayal and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other theatre roles include: Beauty Smith in White Fang, Bert Barricune in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Both at the Park Theatre); Don Antonio in The Rover (Hampton Court); Phil in The People Next Door (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Baz in Damages (The Bush Theatre); Carl in Carver (The Arcola) and Daniel in The Little Pony (Cervantes Theatre).
Recent Screen work include Extras with Ricky Gervais, Sherlock, Love Soup, Holby City, Heartbeat, Coronation Street, All at Sea and feature films The Honourable Rebel, Excalibur Rising, The Great Director and Radioactive.
He is also a voice actor and recently won Best Male Performance in a Radio Drama at the 2018 One Voice Awards.

David Tarkenter
For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee, Betrayal, Hamlet and The Collection.
Theatre includes: The Knight of the Burning Pestle (The Globe Theatre Company), The 39 Steps (Vienna), Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, The Rivals and The Winter’s Tale. David has a long association with the Mercury Theatre having previously appeared for the company as Abanazar in Aladdin, Muley in The Grapes of Wrath and in the title role of King David, amongst countless others.
Television and film credits include: Falling, Harry, Quayside, Heartbeat, Micawber, Inspector Rebus, Byker Grove and, most recently, 55 Degrees North and Lawless.
David has also worked extensively as a voiceover artist, including recording numerous audio books, commercials and radio plays.
David Walshe

Michael Emans
In his training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Michael received a BA Hons in Theatre Directing, and spent his third year assisting Patrick Sandford at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton working on a range of work from classic Tom Stoppard to new writing to Panto!
After leaving drama school Michael assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre for a season. Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor with the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award, “Magnum Opus” and the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”.
Other previous theatre includes: Over the Mountain by Roy Williams (Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School by Claire Luckham (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton).
For Rapture Theatre, Michael has directed: Death and the Maiden, The Dumb Waiter, Some Kind of Love Story, Shadowlands, Taking Sides, Clara, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Boys’ Life, Grace, Death of a Salesman, A Kind of Alaska, Habeas Corpus, Rat in the Skull, Oleanna, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Bold Girls, Shang-a-Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Mr. Peters’ Connections, Insignificance, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Your Turn to Clean the Stair, The Old Neighborhood, The Sailmaker, Richard III, Double Top, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages, The Collection, Frozen, Broken Glass, Shining City, Betrayal 2008, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way, The Sash, The Collection, Shang-a-Lang 2013, Uncle Varick., All My Sons , The Last Yankee , Democracy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ten Pound Look, The Browning Version , A Kind of Alaska ( 2019) , The Red Lion and Clybourne Park.

Lyn McAndrew
Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University
For Rapture Theatre as designer: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages,The Collection, Broken Glass, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way and The Sash.