He also directed 27 theatre productions, including James Joyce’s Exiles David Mamet’s Oleanna seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room, at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2000 with a cast including Keith Allen, Lindsay Duncan, Lia Williams, Indira Varma and Danny Dyer. Harold Pinter (1930 – 2008) wrote 29 plays including The Homecoming, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker and Betrayal, and 21 screenplays including The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Sleuth. Her television credits include Silk, Lewis, EastEnders and Doctors. Her previous stage credits include Around the World in 80 Days at the St James Theatre, Great Expectations at West Yorkshire Playhouse and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC’s Complete Works Festival. Royal Shakespeare Company regular Geoffrey Lumb appears as Joey, recently seen in the West End in Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and The Light. His stage performances include The Watsons at Chichester Festival Theatre and The Lady in the Van and Racing Demon in the Theatre Royal Bath’s 2017 Summer Season. Teddy is played by Sam Alexander whose recent television credits include the role of Rhys in Emmerdale. His West End credits also include Shakespeare in Love and Tommy. He has performed at the National Theatre extensively, most recently in The Power of Yes. His theatre work includes the West End productions of Into The Woods, Radio Times, Mrs Henderson Presents and Half A Sixpence, receiving Olivier Award nominations for all four shows. He has also appeared in the series Perfect Scoundrels and Harry, and played guest roles in numerous primetime dramas including Foyle’s War, Heartbeat, DCI Banks, South Riding, The Accused, New Tricks, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, William and Mary, Wycliffe, Minder, The Darling Buds Of May and Rumpole Of the Bailey. In a career spanning 40 years, his many television credits include the role of Geoff Metcalfe in over 200 episodes of Coronation Street, for which he won both Best Actor and Best Villain awards. His theatre credits also include Pinter 3: Landscape/A Kind of Alaska in the West End David Hare’s Murmuring Judges at the National Theatre, and The Celebration and The Room directed by Harold Pinter at the Almeida Theatre and in New York.įour-time Olivier Award nominee Ian Bartholomew plays Sam. Keith has starred in two previous productions of The Homecoming, playing Teddy at the National Theatre in 1997 and appearing as Sam at London’s Trafalgar Studios in 2015. His film credits include The Others, Gaslight, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Eddie The Eagle, 24 Hour Party People and Shallow Grave. On television, his many credits include the series Marcella Bodies My Mad Fat Diary Roger Roger The Body Farm Making Out Robin Hood (as the Sheriff of Nottingham) and the 2021 mini-series The Pembrokeshire Murders. Keith Allen plays the role of brutal patriarch, Max. Mathew can currently be seen in the sitcom series Newark, Newark on Gold and in cinemas in The Nan Movie with Catherine Tate. Mathew Horne plays Lenny, Teddy’s enigmatic brother. Mathew’s many screen credits include the roles of Gavin in BBC’s Gavin & Stacey, Roy Silver in Sky One’s Agatha Raisin, Headmaster Fraser in BBC’s Bad Education and Ben Birkett in Channel 4’s Teachers. The Homecoming won four Tony Awards on Broadway in 1967, including Best Play. Widely regarded as his finest work, Harold Pinter’s bleakly funny exploration of family and relationships has become a modern classic since receiving its West End premiere in 1965. Who will emerge victorious – the poised and elegant Ruth or her husband’s dysfunctional family? In the subsequent series of encounters, life becomes a barely camouflaged battle for power and sexual supremacy fought out with taut verbal brutality. 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. A new production of Harold Pinter’s Tony Award-winning drama The Homecoming starring Mathew Horne, Keith Allen and Ian Bartholomew comes to York Theatre Royal from 16-21 May.
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