Tom Hiddleston to make Broadway debut in Jamie Lloyd's production of Betrayal

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Zoe Paskett28 June 2019

Tom Hiddleston will make his Broadway debut as Harold Pinter’s Betrayal transfers from the West End to New York.

Director Jamie Lloyd’s critically acclaimed production will also see Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton reprise their roles.

The play opened to positive reviews in March as the climax of Lloyd’s widely praised Pinter at the Pinter season. The Standard’s Henry Hitchings gave it four stars, calling Hiddleston “irresistibly magnetic.” He said: “Everything in Lloyd’s minimalist staging feels precisely calibrated...it’s a surprising and unsparing interpretation, in which every detail counts.”

Performances will begin in August at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, currently home to Sam Mendes’s multi-award winning The Ferryman, which also trasnferred from London.

Betrayal follows an extramarital affair in reverse, from the aftermath to its beginnings. Hiddleston plays Robert, whose wife Emma (Ashton) is having an affair with his friend Jerry (Cox). The 1978 play said to be inspired by Pinter’s own affair with Joan Bakewell, and is considered to be his masterpiece.

Hiddleston’s appearance in the West End run of Betrayal marked a return to the stage following an Olivier Award-winning breakout performance in Cymbeline. He won an Evening Standard Theatre Award in 2014 for his role in Coriolanus.

Cox is best known for his starring role in Marvel’s Netflix series Daredevil, while actor and playwright Ashton became a familiar face after playing Vod in Channel 4 series Fresh Meat. She recently starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Velvet Buzzsaw.

Tom Hiddleston at opening night of Pinter's Betrayal - in pictures

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