Betrayal tickets at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London

Tom Hiddleston's recently released advert on the Chinese blogging site Weibo has gone viral with a mixture of shock and delight.  'Creepy', 'uncomfortable' and 'downright weird' are just some of the things the advertisement for the vitamin company Centrum has been called. It may have been widely mocked in the Western media, but the made-for-mobile ad has been deemed a huge success with its intended audience - Chinese women. Shot from the perspective of Hiddleston's partner, who walks into their stylish kitchen to find the heart-throb actor making breakfast and wishing her a good morning.  He then says in Chinese 还有你的善存, which can be translated as "here's your Centrum", or "don't forget your Centrum". The minute-long video filmed in vertical format was posted from Hiddleston's official Weibo account on Wednesday and has been watched over 2.5 million by Friday. The Avengers' actor is currently starring in the West End production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal; a compelling play which charts a a seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. The play which opened to critical acclaim features Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox, and has just been extended due to high demand. Find tickets to Betrayal Betrayal is booking until 8 June 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre,  London.

Images of Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox have been released offering a first look the West End revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.  Jamie Lloyd's 'exceptionally thoughtful and searching revival' (★★★★★ Independent) opened to rapturous applause and critical acclaim with 'Hiddleston’s brightly brittle Robert and Ashton’s Emma, who always seems to be presenting a bright facade and a more painful truth under that facade' (★★★★★ Time Out) and Charlie Cox [rising] brilliantly to the challenge of sitting absolutely still and speaking volumes while saying not a word (★★★★ WhatsOnStage). Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, inspired by his own love affair, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. The complexities of the human heart are explored in this, “the greatest, and the most moving, of all Pinter’s plays” (The Daily Telegraph). The full length play is the final piece in Lloyd's Pinter at the Pinter season to mark the 10th anniversary of the playwright's death. Read a round-up of reviews for Betrayal [ngg src="galleries" ids="585" display="basic_imagebrowser"]  Find tickets to Betrayal Betrayal is booking until 8 June 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre,  London.

Jamie Lloyd's production of Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox has opened to rapturous applause at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. Following a brilliant season of Pinter's short plays, Lloyd tops it off with Pinter's full-length study of the complex mathematics of betrayal. Inspired by Harold Pinter's affair with TV presenter Joan Bakewell, Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. Find tickets to Betrayal Read a round-up of theatre reviews for Betrayal from the UK press including The Guardian, The Times, The Evening Standard, Time Out, The Daily Telegraph and more. Betrayal is currently booking until 1 June 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.

Images of Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox have been released offering a first glimpse of Jamie Lloyd's production of Betrayal. The production begins previews on 5 March 2019 with an official press night on 13 March 2019. Betrayal is the final piece in Lloyd's Pinter at the Pinter season - a season of Pinter's one-act plays staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the playwright's death. Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, inspired by his own love affair, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. The complexities of the human heart are explored in this, “the greatest, and the most moving, of all Pinter’s plays” (The Daily Telegraph). [ngg src="galleries" ids="581" display="basic_imagebrowser"]  Find tickets to Betrayal Betrayal is booking until 1 June 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre,  London.

Fresh Meat’s Zawe Ashton and Daredevil’s Charlie Cox will join Tom Hiddleston in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s romantic play Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London Zawe will play Emma, Hiddleston’s wife who has an affair with his ‘good friend’ Jerry, played by Charlie Cox. Inspired by Pinter’s affair with TV presenter Joan Bakewell, the play is told in reverse chronological order and thrilling charts the complexities, betrayals and romance of the affair. Known for her roles in television sitcom Fresh Meat, the comedy series Not Safe for Work, Wanderlust and the forthcoming Velvet Buzzsaw, Zawe starred in The Jamie Lloyd Company production of Jean Genet’s The Maids at Trafalgar Studios and played the title role in Lloyd’s production of Salomé for Headlong. Zawe Ashton said: ‘I’m so thrilled to be part of the journey into the heart of one of Harold Pinter’s most personal pieces of work. As a longtime collaborator of Jamie Lloyd, it’s so exciting to be rounding off such an epic season of Pinter’s work.’ Charlie Cox is best known for the leading role in Daredevil for Marvel, Tristan Thorn in Stardust, Jonathan Hellyer Jones in The Theory of Everything and Owen Sleater in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Cox’s stage work includes the 2008 production of The Lover & The Collection, directed by Jamie Lloyd, the title role in The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse and Nick Payne’s Incognito in New York. Charlie Cox said: ‘I am so excited to be returning to the West End and, indeed, the Harold Pinter Theatre after over ten years, and to be collaborating once again with the brilliant Jamie Lloyd. It feels particularly fitting and special to be working with Jamie on another Pinter play, as our production of ‘The Lover and The Collection’ in 2008 was amongst the last projects that Harold himself was personally involved with.’ Find tickets to Betrayal Betrayal begins previews on 5 March 2019, with press night on 13 March 2019, and will run until 1 June 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.  

Tom Hiddleston fans' dreams came true when it was announced he would return to the stage in Betrayal, the final production of the Pinter at the Pinter season in London's West End. Tom Hiddleston shot to stardom playing Loki in the 2011 live-action film Thor and has firmly established the character as an anti-hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tom's other notable screen roles include The Night Manager opposite Olivia Coleman, Stephen Spielberg's War Horse, Kong: Skull Island, The Hollow Crown and The Deep Blue Sea. The Golden Globe, Olivier and Evening Standard Award winner's stage roles include his acclaimed Hamlet directed by Kenneth Branagh, his Evening Standard Award-winning performance in Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014, Ivanov, Othello, Cymbeline and The Changeling. What is Betrayal about? Written with poetic precision, rich humour and an extraordinary emotional force Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. Inspired by Harold Pinter's affair with TV presenter Joan Bakewell, it integrates the different permutations of betrayal relating to an affair involving married couple, Emma and Robert, and Robert's "close friend" Jerry, who is also married, to a woman named Judith. For five years Jerry and Emma carry on their affair without Robert's knowledge, both cuckolding Robert and betraying Judith, until Emma, without telling Jerry she has done so, admits her infidelity to Robert (in effect, betraying Jerry), although she continues their affair. Four years after exposing the affair, and two years after their subsequent break-up, Emma meets Jerry to tell him that her marriage to Robert is over. She then lies to Jerry in telling him that, "last night", she had to reveal the truth to Robert and that he now knows of the affair. The truth however, is that Robert has known about the affair for the past four years. When and where is Betrayal running? Betrayal begins previews on 5 March 2019, with press night on 13 March 2019, and will run until 1 June 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. Who is in the Betrayal cast? Tom Hiddleston will play Robert; Zawe Ashton (Velvet Buzzsaw, Wanderlust, Fresh Meat) will play Emma; and Charlie Cox (Daredevil, The Theory of Everything, Boardwalk Empire, Stardust) will play Jerry. How to get tickets for Betrayal Tickets are now on sale here Will Betrayal be filmed for the cinema? It has yet to been announced if Betrayal will be filmed for a live broadcast to cinemas.