Olivier-nominated Matthew Dunster (2:22 A Ghost Story) directs a bold, spare refocusing of Harold Pinter’s powerful masterpiece with Lighting Designer and Agency Client Sally Ferguson.
Starring BAFTA Award-winning Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Mad Men), Joe Cole (Gangs of London, Peaky Blinders), and Lisa Diveney (Call the Midwife). When academic son Teddy returns home from America, with a wife his family have never met, a strange power struggle between man, wife and in-laws ensues.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Evening Standard
Lighting designer Sally Ferguson should also get her own curtain call
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Upcoming
Still shocking all these decades later and still relevant thanks to its astute exploration of toxic masculinity and gender roles, The Homecoming really is a play like no other
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Telegraph
Matthew Dunster’s revival of Pinter’s 1965 play is stylishly expressive, and boasts a real star turn from the Crown and Mad Men alumnus
⭐⭐⭐⭐ West End Best Friend
The Young Vic’s revival of The Homecoming is a delightful production, respectfully bringing Pinter’s vision to the forefront, leaving the audience with deep distress and confusion as Pinter intended
⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian
Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny
⭐⭐⭐ WhatsOnStage
Dunster’s direction emphasises the underlying violence but also the sense of a disrupted, unhappy past, where nothing is absolutely as it seems
⭐⭐⭐ The Arts Desk
Unsettling investigation of patriarchal family and sexual relationships has uneven force
⭐⭐⭐ TimeOut
one of the greatest and strangest works of the twentieth century
⭐⭐⭐ iNews
The play speaks potently to the toxic masculinity of today, but it is not a play that is kind to women
⭐⭐ The Times
a portrait of the almost comically dysfunctional male members of a blue-collar London family
⭐⭐ The Reviews Hub
At its heart, The Homecoming is a maddening play
⭐⭐ The Independent
Starry Pinter revival is a tired, tawdry exercise in 1960s misogyny
⭐⭐ Broadway World
focused and tightly crafted