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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 5m
Harold Pinter
Teddy arrives home to pay his family a visit with his wife Ruth, who settles into the household as if into a well-known niche. Teddy's brothers and his father all take it for granted that she is anyone's for the asking... and she is.
Image: 2015 West End Production (Marc Brenner)
Winner! Four 1967 Tony Awards, including Best PlayWinner! 2008 Drama Desk AwardNominee: Six 1967 Tony AwardsNominee: Three 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play
In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging, crude patriarch, his ineffectual brother Sam and two of Max’s three sons, both unmarried – Lenny, a small-time pimp and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son Teddy, now a successful professor of philosophy in America. After six years abroad, Teddy brings his wife Ruth, to meet the family for the first time.
In the style that became a trademark, Pinter creates mounting tension, with insidiously bizarre accusations and proposals by the men to Ruth. Soon, The Homecoming gives way to an ominous game of cat and mice.
The Homecoming premiered in the West End with the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Aldwych Theatre in June 1965, under the direction of Peter Hall and starring Ian Holm and Vivien Merchant. It transferred to The Music Box Theatre on Broadway in 1967.
MAX - a man of seventy.LENNY - a man in his early thirties, Max's son.SAM - a man of sixty-three, Max's brother.JOEY - a man in his middle twenties, Max's son.TEDDY - a man in his middle thirties, Max's son.RUTH - a woman in her early thirties, Teddy's wife.
Summer. An old house in North London.
“Gripping and nastily funny.” – The Stage
"Bizarre, ominous and taunting...A steadily absorbing, tantalizing and disturbing theatrical adventure. Enthralling." – New York Post
The Homecoming – 2024 Young Vic Production Extract 1
The Homecoming – 2024 Young Vic Production Extract 2
The Homecoming – 2008 Broadway Cast in Interview
The Homecoming – Australian Shakespeare Company Trailer
Image: 2011 Royal Shakespeare Company Production (Tristram Kenton)
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was born in London on October 10, 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worke ...
by Harold Pinter