What's the price of betrayal? In Peter Nichols' 1981 play it's a painful splintering of the psyche. The betrayer mentally compartmentalises in order to be both affectionate husband and ardent lover; the betrayed loses her confidence, her purpose, even her identity until she is " in ways that Nichols makes theatrically explicit " beside herself.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:30PM on May 7, 2013