Pinter's The Homecoming

Wow! Interesting! I just came back from a stage play that ended two hours ago. I would say that it was an amazing experience for me to watch a live play for the first time. Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, that was the show I watched tonight, left me to think a lot about the human or family relationship. The play was about Terry’s homecoming with his wife, Ruth, after six years of living in America. One would find that all the members in the family were so much in unstable emotions and anguish. They were all different, even Ruth was different. She flirted with all the other brothers in the family in front of her husband’s eyes. How weird it is! Another thing that I would like to mention is that I could not stand the smoke of both cigarettes and cigars caused by the father. I was close to the actors as I took the seat at the second row. However, I enjoyed the play very much and I especially liked the lighting of the play. I was captured by every move of the actors. I enjoyed scrutinising other characters’ facial expressions while one talks in the play. The ending of the play was shocking because the family would ignore a dying person who fainted on the floor while they were busy buzzing around the flirtatious Ruth. Lastly, I would say that KLPAC is placed in a beautiful park which is in tranquillity and serenity.