The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

It's still in previews and I saw it tonight with a bunch of friends. Two brothers and the two sons of one of them live in a house and the dynamics among them all scream dysfunctional family. The eldest brother returns home in the dead of the night with his wife of nine years (they have three kids at home in America). Then it gets really ugly.

Great cast: Ian McShane (of Deadwood, which I have not yet watched), Eve Best (wonderful in the recent production of Moon For the Misbegotten with Kevin Spacey), Raul Esparza, who was terrific as Bobby in Company, and Michael McKean. (the two other actors were also quite good but I'm not familiar with them).

The first act was a bit slow and a whole row of people in front of us never returned from intermission. Which is a shame because I found the play very interesting in its sexual and familial dynamics. I'm interested enough in it--a very dark comedy--to want to see another production some time.

After the play we went to a place called Maxie's for coffee and dessert. One person suggested that the characters of Teddy and Ruth (husband and wife) might have fit perfectly in with Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

The weather was supposed to be awful but so far it's doing nothing (it sleeted for a few minutes when we left the theater.