Sheffield CrucibleIn every beginning lurk the seeds of an ending. Harold Pinter's 1978 play, inspired by his own affair with Joan Bakewell, starts with ex-lovers meeting two years after their affair has ended and works backwards to the moment, nine years previously, when the affair first sparked and flamed.John Simm, as literary agent Jerry, is all the more heartbreaking in his boyish protestations of love for Emma, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM on May 23, 2012