Aitken resists any temptation to overdo those famed Pinter pauses, but plenty happens between the lines of this “Betrayal.’’ Allen Moyer’s sets are handsome - a pub with red-leather banquettes, a study rimmed by low-slung bookcases, a flat whose furnishings are trimmed in golden colors - but the designer leaves plenty of wide-open spaces onstage. Words not just spoken but unspoken matter greatly in “Betrayal,’’ as in most of this Nobel laureate’s work. “Our home?’’ Equally telling is Jerry’s blandly ambiguous response: “It’s marvelous not to have a telephone.’’ “Do you still like it?’’ Emma blithely asks Jerry. That fraught word surfaces again, with an extra edge of poignancy, in a scene in the same flat two years earlier. actually be a home,’’ Emma reacts with a stricken look and a sudden intake of breath. BETRAYAL gives present readers and future historians a good start.For instance: When Jerry (Alan Cox) bluntly tells Emma (Gretchen Egolf) that the flat they’ve taken for their assignations “could never.

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'What we are now calling the Catholic Church scandal began with a court document that could have been buried in a sea of legal papers had it not been for a team of reporters from the Boston Globe. The fulest account to date of the egregious priestly and episcopal mistakes, sins, and crimes that occurred at the epicenter of what almost immediately became a national crisis.'

Betrayal by The Boston Globe