The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter

Name: The Homecoming
Brand: Harold Pinter
SKU: 9780571160808
Rating: 3.69 (9856 reviews)

The Homecoming Book Cover — The Homecoming Cover

Highlights

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Interior SetBritish

Awards & Recognition

Tony Award

WINNER! 1967 Tony Award for Best Play WINNER! Critics' Award for Best Play of the Year

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about this play. While many appreciate its absurdity and the dark humor embedded in the characters' interactions, others find it too strange or disturbing. The complexity of themes like family dysfunction resonates, though some struggle with its unconventional narrative style and dialogue.

Absurd and darkly humorousStrong character dynamicsThought-provoking themesToo strange for someDisturbing content may unsettle

Synopsis

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.

Press Reviews

"Bizarre, ominous and taunting...A steadily absorbing, tantalizing and disturbing theatrical adventure. Enthralling."
— New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Lenny a man in his early thirties, Max's son.	male	—	a man in his early thirties, Max's son.
Sam a man of sixty-three, Max's brother.	male	—	a man of sixty-three, Max's brother.
Joey a man in his middle twenties, Max's son.	male	—	a man in his middle twenties, Max's son.
Teddy a man in his middle thirties, Max's son.	male	—	a man in his middle thirties, Max's son.
Ruth a woman in her early thirties, Teddy's wife.	female	—	a woman in her early thirties, Teddy's wife.
Max a man of seventy.	—	—	a man of seventy.