by Harold Pinter · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413413307
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The Homecoming is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter, published in 1965. The plot follows Teddy, a philosophy professor who returns to his family home in London with his wife Ruth, whom his family does not know. The visit unleashes latent tensions and conflicts, especially when Teddy's brothers and father try to convince Ruth to stay and join their peculiar lifestyle. The play explores themes of power, sexuality, and the nature of family identity.
Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.
