
The Homecoming
2021
In an old and slightly seedy house in North London lives Max, the aging, loud and crude patriarch, his ineffectual brother Sam and two of Max's three sons, - Lenny, a small-time player in the west end and Joey, who has high hopes of being a professional boxer and sidekick in the weekends for Lenny. Into this dysfunctional abode arrives the eldest son Teddy, an apparently successful professor of philosophy in America. After six years abroad, Teddy has brought his wife home to visit the family for the first time since they married. His literal 'homecoming' becomes more of a suggestive homecoming for Ruth. In Pinter's creative way, tension mounts, with deceptive accusations and proposals to Ruth.
Considered one of Pinter's most enigmatic plays, it explores issues of sex, power, delusion, compressed anger and the female role in a very recondite, yet enthralling, manner.
Cast: Calum Gittins, Michael Lawrence, Ross Brannigan, Jesse Dean Miller, Phillip Brooks and Venetia Clark
Directed by Edward Peni & Michael Lawrence
Past Productions

The Dumb Waiter
by Harold Pinter
2024

The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
2021

The Hothouse
by Harold Pinter
2019

Eigengrau
by Penelope Skinner
Bats Theatre & Basement Theatre
2012

The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
Musgrove Studio (Maidment Theatre)
2012

The Public Eye
by Peter Shaffer
The Jack Studio London
2011

The Pitmen Painters
by Lee Hall
Q Theatre, Auckland
2011

Creditors
by August Strindberg
Translation by Michael Meyer
Maidment Studio
2009

The Chairs
by Eugene Ionesco
Maidment Studio, Auckland
2009

The Hothouse
by Harold Pinter
Maidment Studio
2008

The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
Herald Theatre, Auckland
2007

Strange Children
by Stephanie Johnson
Herald Theatre, Auckland
2005

Sexual Perversity in Chicago
by David Mamet
Greenwich Playhouse, London
2005

The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter
Maidment Studio, Auckland
2004

Blue Orange
by Joe Penhall
Maidment Studio, Auckland
2003

Marlene
by Pam Gems
Baycourt Theatre, Tauranga
Herald Theatre, Auckland
2003

Miss Julie
By August Strindberg
Maidement Studio, Auckland
2003

Old Times
Maidment Studio, Auckland
2002

Decadence
by Steven Berkoff
Maidment Studio, Auckland
Circa Studio, Wellington 2002