Tampa Repertory Theatre to Present BETRAYAL, 5/7-24

Tampa Repertory Theatre will present Harold Pinter's groundbreaking drama Betrayal, opening May 7 in the Studio Theatre at HCC Ybor and running through May 24. Performance times are 7:30 PM on Thursdays, 8:00 PM on Fridays and Saturdays, and 3:00 PM on Sundays. Tickets are $20; $15 tickets are available to students, seniors and military personnel. The HCC Ybor Studio Theatre is located at 2204 N 15th Street, Ybor City, at the corner of East Palm Avenue and North 14th Street (Avenida Republica de Cuba). Patrons may purchase tickets at the door or at TampaRep.org.

Winner of the 1979 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, Betrayal is famously known as the "backwards play" because Nobel-winning playwright Pinter arranged the play's scenes, with a few exceptions, in reverse chronological order. Betrayal tells the story of an extramarital affair, beginning in 1977 with the affair's aftermath, and working its way backward to the affair's first kiss, in 1968, at the end of the play.

"By telling the tale in reverse, Pinter peels away the layers in a way that's revealing, funny and ultimately heartbreaking," says the director of TampaRep's production, Artistic Director C. David Frankel.

Betrayal has been produced three times on Broadway, most recently in an acclaimed 2013 revival starring reigning James Bond Daniel Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz.

Frankel has assembled his own star cast, including Emilia Sargent (Creative Loafing "Best of the Bay" winner for her performance as Blanche in TampaRep's A Streetcar Named Desire), Greg Thompson (star of Stageworks Theatre Company's just-closed Last of the Red Hot Lovers) and Ned Averill-Snell, star of TampaRep's The Apocrypha of Theodore Roosevelt last fall.

Betrayal caps TampaRep's fourth and most successful season, which featured record-breaking runs of the mainstage play Imagining Madoff and Bethany from the company's experimental stage, TRT2.

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