Off Broadway West Theatre Presents Pinter's THE HOMECOMING April 2 - May 2

Off Broadway West Theatre Company presents the award-winning THE HOMECOMING by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter directed by Joyce Henderson. The play is concerned with the return of Teddy, a professor of philosophy at an American college, to the North London house occupied by his father, uncle, brothers, all of whom operate on the fringes of working-class society, some distance from respectability. Teddy is accompanied by his wife Ruth, the woman who enters and disrupts their domain in this comedy of menace. Reminiscent of the raw claustrophobic world of THE SOPRANO'S, language at it's most visceral conveys what is unspoken.

Harold Pinter, the British playwright, whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within the silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation. In Mr. Pinter's work "words are weapons that the characters use to discomfort or destroy each other," said Peter Hall, who has staged more of Mr. Pinter's plays that any other director.

This is first posthumous West Coast production since Pinter's death December 24, 2008. THE HOMECOMING originally opening in London in June 1965, won a Tony Award as best play in a long run on Broadway, and in 2008 had a very successful revival on Broadway.

WHEN: Previews Thursday, April 2, 2009
Open Friday, April 3, 2009
Closes Saturday, May 2, 2009

TIMES: Thursday - Saturday at 8:00PM

WHERE: The Phoenix Theatre, 414 Mason Street (between Geary and Post), San Francisco

TICKETS: $30 (TBA, Senior/Student, Group discounts available)
For Advance Sales: www.offbroadwaywest.org or (800)838-3006
For additional information: 510-835-4205

Featuring: Graham Cowley, Randy Hurst, Gregg Hood, Nicholas Russell, Conor Hamill, Sylvia Kratins