The Homecoming [Drama On 3]

By Harold Pinter.

A new production for BBC Radio 3 of Pinter's play that sees the playwright himself heading up a star cast in the role of Max, the head of the Hackney family to which a professor and his wife return one night from America.

Max, a man of 70....Harold Pinter

Lenny, a man in his early 30s....Samuel West

Sam, a man of 63....Michael Gambon

Joey, a man in his middle 20s....James Alexandrou

Teddy, a man in his middle 30s....Rupert Graves

Ruth, a woman in her early 30s....Gina Mckee

Director Thea Sharrock.

Electrifying audiences when it was first performed in 1965, The Homecoming has quickly established itself as a modern classic.

In this production for BBC Radio, Pinter himself takes on the role of Max, the head of the Hackney family to which a professor and his wife return one night from America.

There, amongst the shadows of the past and the realities of the present, a compelling drama unfolds.

Max, a man of seventy....Harold Pinter

Lenny, a man in his early thirties....Samuel West

Sam, a man of sixty-three....Michael Gambon

Joey, a man in his middle twenties....James Alexandrou

Teddy, a man in his middle thirties....Rupert Graves

Ruth, a woman in her early thirties....Gina Mckee