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The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 and published in 1965 by Harold Pinter. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play. Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony ...
The Homecoming is a two-act drama by Harold Pinter, published and produced in 1965. It focuses on the return of a professor and his wife to his London home, where they encounter his father, brothers, and uncle.
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The Homecoming Summary. The setting is a working-class London flat in the early 1960s. This is the home of Max, the aging patriarch; his brother Sam; and Max’s two sons Lenny, a small-time pimp, and Joey, an aspiring boxer. Initially, Lenny and Max discuss the paper and how Max wants to find scissors so that he can cut out a coupon for some ...
A dark comedy about a family of men and their power struggles in London. Ruth, Teddy's wife, becomes a pawn in their games and challenges their dominance.
The Homecoming. First published by Metheun & Co. in 1965. First produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, on 3rd June 1965. Selected UK Productions. Production 65. Production 69. Production 78.
The Play. The Homecoming begins in the evening of an apparently normal working day. Max and Lenny are sitting in the large, slumlike living room in North London, which is the realistic setting for ...
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There, it won four coveted Tony awards, including Best Play. Pinter himself would go on to have a long and decorated career, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. The Homecoming is an elusive, absurdist, work and a good introduction to Pinter’s extensive oeuvre. The edition referenced here is the 1967 Grove Press Evergreen edition ...
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