TV STARS TAKE TO THE
STAGE IN HAROLD PINTER CLASSIC
The Homecoming
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Tuesday 10 – Saturday 14 May 2022
Mathew Horne, star of BBC’s Gavin & Stacey and Keith Allen take
centre stage in Harold Pinter’s 1960s masterpiece The Homecoming – widely regarded as his finest play - coming to
Newcastle Theatre Royal in May 2022.
This
bleakly funny exploration of family and relationships has become a modern
classic and winner of the Tony Award for Best New Play.
Mathew Horne (Death in Paradise, Bad Education), will play the role of
Lenny, Teddy’s enigmatic brother. Versatile actor, comedian and musician Keith Allen (The Young Ones,
The Pembrokeshire Murders, Pinter
3 in the West End) plays the brutal patriarch, Max.
Teddy is played by Sam Alexander whose recent TV appearances include Rhys
in Emmerdale and
on stage The Watsons,
(Chichester Festival Theatre), Lady
in the Van and Racing
Demon (both Theatre Royal Bath). Four-time
Olivier Award nominee Ian Bartholomew (Into The Woods, Radio Times, Mrs
Henderson Presents, Half a Sixpence, Coronation Street) plays Sam.
RSC regular Geoffrey Lumb, recently seen in the West End in
Hilary Mantel’s The
Mirror and The Light, plays Joey. Shanaya Rafaat
(Around the World in 80 Days at
the St James Theatre, Great
Expectations at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and BBC’s Doctor Who) plays Ruth.
Teddy, a professor in an
American university, returns to his childhood home accompanied by his wife,
Ruth, to find his father, uncle and brothers still living there. In the
subsequent series of encounters, life becomes a barely camouflaged battle for
power and sexual supremacy fought out with taut verbal brutality. Who will
emerge victorious – the poised and elegant Ruth or her husband’s dysfunctional
family?
Tickets:
The
Homecoming plays at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tuesday 10 – Saturday 14 May
2022.
Tickets are priced from £15.00 and can be purchased at www.theatreroyal.co.uk or from the
Theatre Royal Box Office on 0191 232 7010.
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