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His characters are like those waterbugs who balance above the depths on the delicate force of surface tension.
Impressive and interesting, yes.
Devastating?(Pause.)Well.
Lloyds production is cool, confident, and mercifully aware of Pinters sense of humor.
Theres expertise on display, but theres an academic distance to it too.
Hes betrayed me for years.
Hes had… other women for years.
Despite the real power of Hiddlestons performance, that empathy gap strikes me as a flaw.
The scenes between Robert and Jerry, though often tense and terse, feel lived, red-blooded, affectionate.
Emma often seems ethereal her motivations and actual desires somehow far away.
Its clear she likes Jerrys attention, but its not clear where her own deep hungers lie.
Still, Lloyds stripped-to-the-bone approach to the plays environment lets the text breathe and stretch.
The staging restores some of the balance thats lost in the performances.
Betrayalis at the Jacobs Theatre.
