Honolulu Weekly

Harold Pinter, The Homecoming / Harold Pinter’s plays provoke, push, punch, prod, perplex…and…pause. The “Pinter Pause,” as it is called, defines those moments in a Pinter play when sinister, almost gelatinous masses of conflicting emotions, hidden agendas, downright deceptions and potential outcomes hang for a moment in the air before crashing to the floor and engulfing the audience in a new and sometimes nasty realization about the characters.

One of Pinter’s best, The Homecoming, debuts this week at Kennedy Theatre. A son and his good-looking wife return to their working-class roots in North London and her arrival unleashes a firestorm among the men of the house.

It…is…a…modern…classic.