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Smoke-filled living room
WILL STONE admires a revival of Pinter’s dark exploration of male chauvinism and sexuality
(L - R) Nicolas Tennant, Jared Harris, Robert Emms and David Angland in The Homecoming
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The Homecoming
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SMOKE as thick as fog looms across a large room in a ’60s London home as free jazz blares out from an old gramophone on the floor in Moi Tran’s atmospheric set for director Matthew Dunster’s revival of The Homecoming, one of Harold Pinter’s darkest plays.
The Big Smoke it may be, but it soon becomes apparent that in this testosterone-fuelled house everyone smokes like chimneys. There are no women (yet) only bitter and broken men.
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