Staged 1998, Royal National Theatre, Lyttelton, London, UK

“Betrayal’s nine scenes are set in reverse chronological order. I’d visited Rachel Whiteread’s monumental House sculpture in 1993, which seemed to cast time as a protagonist in concrete. We responded to the sculpture’s spirit within the cast concrete interior of the National’s Lyttelton Theatre. A single plaster plane held illuminated impressions of the play’s five overlaid locations, as if the wall were actively remembering the time and place of each scene.”

—Es Devlin