The Homecoming
A philosophy professor brings his wife back from America to the North London house where his father, his uncle and his two brothers have lived for years without a woman in it. She is met with insults, then courtesy, then a proposition the family puts to her as a piece of business and discusses in front of her husband. The pauses at full strength, and the point at which Pinter turned the comedy of menace on the family itself.
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- influenced by ↑ Waiting for Godot
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