Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is on stage at the Teatro Argentina, directed by Massimo Popolizio; the work of the British playwright which was first performed in 1965 at the Aldwych Theatre in London by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Like several of Pinter's early works, is classified as a "comedy of menace", a comedy that begins with an apparently normal situation, but later evolves into absurd, hostile or threatening circumstances.
At the centre of the plot is Teddy, who teaches philosophy at an American university, who returns to London after a long time to introduce his wife Ruth to the family: the father Max - a violent retired butcher - Uncle Sam, the father's brother and Teddy's two brothers, the thirty-year-old Joey who often boasts of violent erotic adventures and is probably a mythomaniac and the twenty-two-year-old Lenny who would like to be a professional boxer, in reality is the most fragile of the family. When the older brother Teddy and his wife Ruth arrive at the apartment at night, the already precarious balance of the family is completely overturned.
In this grotesque comedy, Harold Pinter, one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century, highlights the crisis of contemporary man through the family, presenting the unpleasant, hard, cruel characters of the play with an ironic and sarcastic language and questioning the values of the family and current morality. Popolizio, thanks to a text that almost seems like a film script, gives life to a show with irreverent humor.
With Massimo Popolizio, Christian La Rosa, Gaja Masciale, Paolo Musio, Alberto Onofrietti, Eros Pascale.
Photo credits: Claudia Pajewski
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