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Rapture Theatre
and the Byre Theatre of St.Andrews
Presents
Betrayal By Harold Pinter
"Superbly crafted performances all round"
The Stage
"Michael Emans' beautifully structured and handsomely staged revival"
The Stage
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 and moving backwards and forwards in time, Pinter’s play captures the grand passions and the sly manoeuvrings 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 hisbest and is a must see
Please note the show contains strong language and is only suitable for the over fourteens.
Thursday 14th August –
Saturday 6th September
@ 7:30pm
Tuesday – Saturday
@ 2:30pm every Saturday
Tickets £15-£6
Box Office 01334 475000
The project will be an exciting development for Rapture Theatre as it will be the first co-production with The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews. The Byre will be working with the company on the artistic and logistical management of the project and key personnel from the theatre will be deployed on the project.
Cast Biographies
CLARE SWINBURNE Emma
Theatre includes:
‘Charley’s Aunt’, ‘Amadeus’, ‘The Changeling’, ‘Great Expectations’, ‘Private Lives’ Northcott Theatre. ‘The Seagull’, ‘Present Laughter’, ‘The Tempest’ West Yorkshire Playhouse. ‘Relative Values’ and ‘A Woman Of No Importance’ Salisbury. The premiere of Alan Ayckborn’s ‘Improbable Fiction’ and Marks and Grand`s ‘ Playing God’ Stephen Joseph Theatre. ‘Present Laughter’ Theatre Clywd and ‘The 39 Steps’ UK Tour.
West End theatre includes:
‘The Bacchai’ and ‘The Oedipus Plays’ Royal National Theatre and Greece. ‘The Master Builder’ Theatre Royal Haymarket and Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto. ‘Dido of Carthage’ The Globe. ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ Theatre Royal Haymarket. ‘Macbeth’ Albery Theatre. Premiere of Simon Gray’s ‘Japes’ Theatre Royal Haymarket. ‘Waste’, ‘Cloud Nine’, ‘The Provoked Wife’ for Sir Peter Hall’s company at the Old Vic.
Television includes:
‘The Bill’, ‘Doctors’, ‘Trial and Retribution’, ‘Inspector Linley’, ‘Holby City’, ‘Dalziel and Pascoe’, ‘In Your Dreams’, ‘Class Act’ , ‘September Song’ and ‘EastEnders’.
Trained at Lamda.
DAVID TARKENTER Robert
Born in Edinburgh, David is delighted to be making his Scottish Theatre debut in Betrayal.
David's theatre credits include
THE RECRUITING OFFICER, OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, SEASONS GREETINGS, KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL, FROZEN, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY and THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Theatre By The Lake in Keswick, DREAMWORLDS at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, co-produced by Live Theatre and the R.S.C, THE BOMB, Action Transport Theatre Company, ‘Bob Ewell’ in TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD, TWELFTH NIGHT and ‘George’ in OF MICE AND MEN, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and CORIOLANUS, all at the Mercury Theatre Colchester, UNDER THE APPLE TREE, BAGSY ME and THE FAMILY COOK BOOK, Cleveland Theatre Company, RAFFERTY’S CAFE, Quondam Theatre Company, THE SINGING RINGING TREE, CTC with NTC Touring, THE BIG PICTURE, PICKETS AND PIGS and CAT IN THE ROAD, Customs House South Shields, THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER and THE MYSTERY PLAYS, Tethera Theatre Company, TIME WINDOWS, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, RUMPLESTILTSKIN, SCHEHEREZADE, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, PINNOCHIO, THE FLAG, AS YOU LIKE IT, MARY BARTON and the title role in TARTUFFE, all for NTC Touring, SNOW WHITE at the Sands Centre, Carlisle. David has also appeared in several productions with Bruvvers Theatre Company in Tyneside including THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, PROS AND CONS, JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE, BABES IN THE WOOD and 100 YEARS AGO TODAY. Most recently David appeared in TWO, Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
Television and film credits include:
HARRY, BBC, QUAYSIDE, Zenith/Tyne Tees, HEARTBEAT, YTV, MICAWBER, YTV, INSPECTOR REBUS, Clerkenwell Films, KING OF THE ROAD, Granada/Tyne Tees/Pilgrim Films, DANNY AND HIS AMAZING TEETH, Ipso Facto films, BYKER GROVE, BBC/Zenith, 55 DEGREES NORTH, BBC and LAWLESS, Company Pictures.
David has also worked extensively as a voice over artist including recording audio books and commercials and radio plays including JUST A TRIM and HELL IN THE FALKLANDS.
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PAUL ALBERTSON Jerry
A graduate of the Guildhall school of Music & Drama,
Theatre includes leading roles in:
Britannicus, Pal Joey, Look Back In Anger, The Homecoming A Taste of Honey, The Pleasure Man, Ebb Tide, The Father, (All Citizens Theatre, Glasgow) Damages (Bush), Semi-Monde (Lyric, West end), Hunting Scenes (Gate), Carver (Arcola), The People Next Door (Traverse/Stratford East) Macbeth (Salisbury) The Rivals (Greenwich).
Televison Work Includes:
Extras (series 2) Love Soup, IF, Heartbeat, Casualty, The Bill, Doctors, Attachments II, Pie in the Sky, Under Milk Wood Wood.
Audio boAudio Books includes:
Gulliver’s Travels,
A Christmas Carol, Diary of St Faustina
DAVID WALSHE Italian Waiter
Born and bred in County Sligo, David trained at the RSAMD. Whilst at the school he played the title role in Hamlet under the direction of Hugh Hodgart at the Arches Theatre.
At the Edinburgh Fringe 2004 he performed hit one man show “A Mobile Thriller” which picked up a Herald Angel Award.
Previous Rapture Credits Include: Shining City
Theatre credits include: Big Baby (Visible Fictions) Dirty Dusting (Robert C Kelly UK Tour), Mother Courage and The Psychic Detective (Benchtours).
He provided the narration for Alice Nelson’s multi award winning documentary
“A Map with Gaps" which screened last year at MoMA in New York.
Film Credits Include: Korea; A Soldiers Song; Love and Rage (with Daniel Craig
and Greta Scacchi); The Chop ( BBC3 ); The Morbegs ( RTE). David is currently
developing "Clara" a new one man play with Scottish writer Wilma Stark, with
support from Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland.
Dvaid will next be seen as "Lumpy" in "I Samba" directed by Julie Tavidevin as part of Arches Live !! Theatre Festival this coming September
Company Biographies
MICHAEL EMANS (Director)
Trained:
Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.
Previous Theatre Includes:
Over the Mountain
(Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School (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 Iune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange ,Damages, The Collection and Frozen,Broken Glass, Shining City
Michael recently assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on “Uncle Varick” and “Six Black Candles”. and worked with acclaimed Scottish playwright Iain Heggie on his new one man show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award “Magnum Opus” and more recently the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”
LYN MCANDREW (Designer)
Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University
Previous Theatre Includes:
The High School, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, A Night in the Ukraine, Teechers, The Steamie, Men Should Weep, The Cemetery Club, The London Vertigo, The Orchestra, Play it again Sam.
For Rapture Theatre as actress: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Shang a Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Bold Girls, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Proof
For Rapture Theatre as Designer: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny, Proof , Misery, Blue/Orange and Damages, The Collection and Frozen
Stephen Sinclair (Lighting Designer)
Based in Fife, Stephen is currently the Operations Manager at the Byre Theatre St Andrews.
Stephen has worked extensively throughout the UK.
He has worked on various high profile events in many Theatres and Concert Halls.
These have been as diverse as the Albert Hall to West Yorkshire Playhouse and Eden Court Theatre.
Stephen specialises in Operations Management, Production Management and Audio Visual work.
However Lighting Design is his first love and he is delighted to be designing the lighting for the Byre Theatre/Rapture Theatre co-production of “Betrayal”.
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