The Homecoming, By Harold Pinter [Drama On 3]

The Homecoming

By Harold Pinter.

Electrifying audiences when it was first performed in 1965, The Homecoming has quickly established itself as a modern classic.

In this production for BBC Radio, Pinter himself takes on the role of Max, the head of the Hackney family to which a professor and his wife return one night from America. There, amongst the shadows of the past and the realities of the present, a compelling drama unfolds.

Max, a man of seventy - Harold Pinter

Lenny, a man in his early thirties - Samuel West

Sam, a man of sixty-three - Michael Gambon

Joey, a man in his middle twenties - James Alexandrou

Teddy, a man in his middle thirties - Rupert Graves

Ruth, a woman in her early thirties - Gina McKee.

Pinter himself takes on the role of Max in this modern classic.