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The Homecoming review " a great simmerer that keeps coming to the boil by Susannah Clapp

Trafalgar Studios, LondonHarold Pinter's study of power and sex has lost none of its ferocityFor all the difference in idiom, you can see echoes of Ibsen in the ferocious power-and-sex play of The Homecoming. It even contains the same drink-as-sex metaphor. Harold Pinter's 1965 drama appears weirder, more frightening and more realistic with every year that passes. The crucial word seems to me to be meat. It is no acc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AM on November 29, 2015

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