Play Reading CANCELLED

Staged Reading

Betrayal

Our play reading scheduled for Sunday, March 15, has been cancelled.

The Chatham Community Players is excited to present Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” as a part of their successful Play Reading Series. One Night ONLY – Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. at the Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Avenue, in Chatham. Gus Ibranyi directs.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door.

The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma’s marriage to Robert, Jerry’s best friend, is now breaking up, and she needs someone to talk to. Their reminiscences reveal that Robert knew of their affair all along and, to Jerry’s dismay, regarded it with total nonchalance. Thereafter, in a series of contiguous scenes, the play moves backward in time, from the end of the Emma-Jerry affair to its beginning, throwing into relief the little lies and oblique remarks that, in this time-reverse, reveal more than direct statements, or overt actions, ever could.

The Cast:

Leslie Gayle Williams as Emma
Jeff Maschi as Jerry
Alan Ellis as Robert

Producers - Salvador Navarro, Jeffrey Fiorello and Steffi Denmark
Stage Manager - Pamela Wilczynski

Light snacks provided, patrons are encouraged to BYOB

Funding has been made possible in part by funds from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.