When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy.
In The Homecoming - an intense expression of compressed violence that inspired forty years of critical debate - Harold Pinter explores family relationships, marriage and role-reversals with clarity, humour and wit.
