Crucible, SheffieldHarold Pinter's 1978 play is both deeply personal and disquietingly universal. Its ostensible subject matter is the staple of bourgeois drama: publisher Robert (Colin Tierney) is married to gallery-owner Emma (Ruth Gemmell), who has an affair with literary agent Jerry (John Simm), who was best man at their wedding. Banal? No. The "betrayal" Pinter explores has a far more complex geometry than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on May 26, 2012