Set Design : Jude Chalk
Lighting Design : Phil Bentley
Costume Design: Meryl Griffiths
Sound Design : Ruth Sullivan
Stage Manager : Richard Pedersen
THE HOMECOMING, by Harold Pinter
Performance Dates :
Tuesday 23rd - Saturday 27th February at 7.45 p.m.
Matinee on 27th February at 3 p.m. This production will be performed at the Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, off Fleet Street.
The director writes :
When Teddy, a professor in an American university brings his wife, Ruth to visit his old home in north London, he finds his family still living in the house: his father, Max; his Uncle Sam and younger brothers, Lenny and Joey. The all male household seems to be dominated by the memory of Max’s wife, Jessie, now deceased. In the conflict that follows it is Ruth who becomes the focus for the family’s struggle for supremacy.
This extraordinary study of family tension is dark, verbally violent and at times extremely funny. Undoubtedly Pinter’s masterpiece, it still causes wildly contrasting audience reactions. Is it a story of a dysfunctional, misogynistic family or a dramatic exploration of male Oedipal psychology? And whose homecoming is it?
First performed in 1965 by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the second Tower revival of the play. This production will be the first in a series of plays by Britain’s greatest post-war, 20th century playwright.
The cast is : Max : Ian Chaplain
Sam : David Sellar
Lenny : Paul Jacobs
Joey : Nathaniel Brown
Teddy : Daniel Watson
Ruth : Natalie Sant
Please contact the director by E-mail
if you have any queries about the show.
If you would be interested in working backstage on this show - stage management, lighting, sound or costumes -
please get in touch with the Technical Co-ordinator, Richard Pedersen,
by E-mail.
Daniel Watson has acted in a range of Tower productions from revue to musicals to
Shakespeare, including productions of As You Like It, Pygmalion, Hard Times, Fallen Angels, Relative Values,
Habeus Corpus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Lock Up Your Daughters.
Outside the Tower he has also acted with other companies including productions of
Lost Empires for the Cambridge Touring Theatre Company, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd for
Haymarket Theatre Leicester, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Yorkshire’s Broughton Shakespeare Festival.
Ian Chaplain is a teacher and lives in Islington. He has been an acting member of
the Tower Theatre Company since 1988, playing various roles including MacHeath in The Threepenny
Opera, Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic & Old Lace, Abanazer in Aladdin,
Vittorio Vidal in Sweet
Charity, Captain Tempest in Return to the Forbidden Planet, the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of
Oz, Macbeth in
Macbeth, Larry in Closer and John in Dublin Carol. He uses a lot of drama in
his job and feels extremely privileged to be a member of the Tower Theatre Company.
Paul Jacobs lives in Crouch End and joined the Tower 2 years ago.
In 2008 he played John Proctor in The Crucible and Man 2 in Putting it Together and last year
he appeared in The Eddie and Otis Soul Review as well as playing Hamlet in the Tower's London and Paris
runs of
Hamlet. Playing Lenny is Paul's first role in a Pinter play, and his first acting role at the Bridewell.
Nate Brown joined the Tower Theatre Company last December and
The Homecoming was the first play he auditioned for. He is currently enrolled in an acting class called The Saturday
Academy, taking part in the advanced classes. This follows on from previous training at school level.
He is grateful to the Tower Theatre for giving him the chance to explore his ambitions of a career in acting,
giving him experience as he looks ahead to future prospects.
Daniel Watson has acted in a range of Tower productions from revue to musicals to
Shakespeare, including productions of As You Like It, Pygmalion, Hard Times, Fallen Angels, Relative Values,
Habeus Corpus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Lock Up Your Daughters.
Outside the Tower he has also acted with other companies including productions of
Lost Empires for the Cambridge Touring Theatre Company, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd for
Haymarket Theatre Leicester, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Yorkshire’s Broughton Shakespeare Festival.
Ian Chaplain is a teacher and lives in Islington. He has been an acting member of
the Tower Theatre Company since 1988, playing various roles including MacHeath in The Threepenny
Opera, Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic & Old Lace, Abanazer in Aladdin,
Vittorio Vidal in Sweet
Charity, Captain Tempest in Return to the Forbidden Planet, the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of
Oz, Macbeth in
Macbeth, Larry in Closer and John in Dublin Carol.
Paul Jacobs lives in Crouch End and joined the Tower 2 years ago.
In 2008 he played John Proctor in The Crucible and Man 2 in Putting it Together and last year
he appeared in The Eddie and Otis Soul Review as well as playing Hamlet in the Tower's London and Paris
runs of
Hamlet. Playing Lenny is Paul's first role in a Pinter play, and his first acting role at the Bridewell.