Trahisons

Emma is a gallery owner in London, she has maintained a relationship for seven years with Jerry, a literary agent, who is also the best friend of her husband Robert, an editor. The play opens with a confession, not an admission to the husband of past infidelity, but an admission to Jerry: Emma tells him that she has just told her husband everything. In a backward chronology, Harold Pinter retraces the seven years of this love triangulation: from separations to meetings, from confessions to lies. By reversing the cycle of time in this plot, Harold Pinter highlights its troubles and contradictions and gives us a complex analysis of feelings and unspoken love.