The Homecoming

The homecoming was first performed in  in 1965 and was written by Harold Pinter, its premier is in London ( Aldwych) and New York.

 It is set in  a living room in north London and has a total  of six characters, five men which are: Max Sam, Lenny , Joey and Teddy and one lady called Ruth  who they all seem to have their eyes on later in the play. Teddy and Ruth decided to come to London after being in America for some years as he wanted his wife to meet his family but things do not turn out to go too well between the couple as she makes a move with all his brothers so he ends up going back to America by himself. The theme of the homecoming is about relationships which is mainly expressed with violence with the sounds being played and through silence in some scenes.

The product designer was Soutra Gilmour she designed the set of where the play was taken place at. She did not do such a bad job as the space was not too big but she managed to add a bit of furniture that matched the time and age of when the play was set which was nice plain and simple.

The light designer was Richard Howell and I thought he did a very good job with the lights because when ever a character had an angry thought in their head the lights would change dramatically to a different colour that matched their emotion and it was unexpected which made it better and gave us a hint on how they were feeling inside if they did not openly mention it out.

In terms of the costume design which was done by Christine cover ferro I think she did a good job as well because it was meant to be set years ago and from watching the play I did not know whether it was a modern one or old one but looking at the costumes it gave me the answer straight away because of what they were wearing.

Overall the play was not really my cup of tea but some scenes were interesting to watch especially the character that the old man was playing as he was getting rude to everyone and made the play have slight humour to it. However, I do not think that it was successful getting its message across because it is about people coming home but watching the play you would not think of it like that. The scene that was good was when they all sat down and drank  their whisky at the same time it was quite interesting how they all done it in sync without even looking at each other.