The American university in Cairo Performing and Visual Arts opened its 1998 Spring Season on February 13th in Wallace Theater on campus with Harold Pinter's play, Betrayal. This play was directed by Eric Grischkat, and the costume design was made by Timaree Mc Cormick. AUC students have strongly participated in the designing, lighting, setting, directing, and in acting. These students were Noha Farouk, Shereef Bishay, Karim Bishay, Ramsi Lehner, and Alaa Shalaby.

Betrayal is play that tell the story of two very close friends, Robert, and Jerry. Both of them were married and had children. Both families loved, and respected each other. However, this did not last long because betrayals took place. This play includes eight betrayals; therefore, one can obviously see how well fit the title is to the main theme of the play . In the first place, Emma resorted to betraying her husband because she did not find true love with him so she thought she could find it with Jerry . However, she failed this time too and so she tried Casey. Robert was not the right person for Emma as he was so cold. There is nothing that moves him even when he knew that Emma was betraying him ,

To sum up, I think that the production of Betrayal was saved by director Eric Grischkat's skillful staging. I like the production very much although I did not like the play at all when I first read the script. The performance was well planned for and it was represented in such a perfect way. Students had proved their capabilities and their theatrical abilities to succeed . The set design is one of the important factor in the success of this play, together with the lighting. That is why I will participate in any coming interesting work!

Jerry, Shereef Bishay, played a very important role and he played it perfectly well. He gave the impression that he is so truthful and that he was really angry when he knew that his best friend Robert knew about his relationship with Emma. His movements were matching so well with the actions in the play. He is the one who gave a slight sense of humor to this non-comic play.

The lighting, by Alaa Shalaby, was so important to the actions in the play. He knew when to blacken the stage and when to focus the light on one character .He used a wonderful dark blue color to express the night and it was especially used in Jerry and Emma's flat. He tried to overcome the problem of the white walls and he managed to do so by painting the floor black.

Pinter has written this play in an unusual way . Its actions move from the latter to the former;( i.e. the play began in the year 1977 and ended in 1968 ). Pinter said that the most effective way to handle this play was by moving backwards. I agree with him because if it moved normally fr

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