Under the direction of artistic director Susan V. Booth and bolstered by actors at the heights of their craft, the Goodman’s BETRAYAL provides audiences with a sincere and sympathetic take on a modern classic.

Robert Sean Leonard and Helen Hunt play a couple in an extramarital affair in Harold Pinter’s play — director Susan Booth is trying something new with casting.

Harold Pinter wrote a play about an affair that wrecks a marriage. The canonical work, “Betrayal,” is structured in reverse chronology, not unlike the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical “Merrily We Roll Along.