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The Homecoming
In The Homecoming – an intense expression of compressed violence that inspired fourty years of critical debate – Harold Pinter explores family relationships, marriage and role-reversals with clarity, humour and wit.
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‘An exultant night – a man in total command of his talent.’ Observer
‘The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter’s plays.’ The Times
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family’s struggle for supremacy.
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime’s achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of…
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