The Homecoming

The Independent“This play has lost none of its capacity to discomfit and affront...” The piece resembles a blackly comic parody of a meet-the-folks drama when prodigal son Teddy, a professor of philosophy in America, returns to introduce Ruth, his wife of six years, to his unsavoury north London family...

The Telegraph“Both hateful and hypnotic...” As in so many of Pinter’s plays, the piece becomes a study of bullying, one-upmanship and territorial possession, as Max, Lenny and Ruth fight for supremacy in the household. Theatrically, it is riveting...

Whatsonstage.com“A black and bleakly comic play given a raw and daring production...” A resounding success. The claustrophobia of the play is well-preserved and the access to the actors enhances the menace that pervades the action...

Guardian“Gets to the heart of Pinter's masterpiece...” The play inevitably revolves around Ruth, who rejects a return to American campus life with Max's eldest son, Teddy, and opts to stay with her bellicose in-laws. Arguments have raged for decades about Ruth...