Teddy, a philosophy professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his father, uncle and two brothers at his old London home, after years of estrangement. In the intense conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of their struggle for supremacy.

'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

'The Homecoming can be seen as a Freudian play about sons filled with subconscious Oedipal desires. It can equally be seen as an ethological study of a group of human animals fighting over territory. Precisely because Pinter never moralises about or resolves the situation, it is a play that, when impeccably acted, continues to haunt our dreams.' Michael Billington, Guardian

The Homecoming premiered at the Aldwych Theatre, London, 1965.

Tony Award for Best Play, 1967.

An intense expression of compressed violence that has inspired years of critical debate.

About the Author
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 Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Legion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.


Book Information
ISBN 9780571160808
Author Harold Pinter
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 130g
Dimensions(mm) 205mm * 134mm * 10mm