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Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright's major dramatic works , it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters' hidden emotions and veiled motivations, and their self-absorbed competitive one-upmanship, face-saving, dishonesty, and (self-) deceptions.
Harold Pinter's reading of a selection of his prose fiction and poems, 92nd Street Y New York City, 12 November 1964 – Hyperlinked in "92Y Podcast: Remembering Harold Pinter, British Playwright", 25 December 2008 (MP3; 65:41); includes: "Tea Party / New Year in the Midlands / A Glass at Midnight / You in the Night / The Drama in April / The ...
Structurally, Portnoy's Complaint is a continuous monologue by narrator Alexander Portnoy to Dr. Spielvogel, his psychoanalyst; Roth later explained that the artistic choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session was motivated by "the permissive conventions of the patient-analyst situation," which would "permit me to bring into my fiction the sort of intimate, shameful detail, and ...
Steve Martin got monologue duties for “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday evening, “traditionally the weakest part of the show” he cracked. Martin was the first of many, many ...
Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – c. January 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist.He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987.
On Sunday, Feb. 16, the standup comedian, 42, turned his attention to the star-studded crowd at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special after roasting comedian Steve Martin, 79, as part of a monologue ...
In this week’s episode of the Paramount+ series, the oil-company lawyer played by Kayla Wallace delivers a blistering monologue to a room full of male attorneys who’ve severely underestimated her.
But scholars and other critical reviewers consider the reversed structure a fully integrated ingenious stylistic means of heightening multiple kinds of ironies energising Betrayal's comedic wit, its cumulative poignancy, and its ultimate emotional impact on audiences, and the play has been produced throughout the United States, Britain, and ...