Stratford 2011: What have you done with the scissors? The Homecomings’opening speach gives the audience “frissons”.
Harold Pinter’s unspoken menace: Stratford’s The Homecoming the only hit among August openings
Postmedia News August 17, 2011
STRATFORD, Ont. – “What have you done with the scissors?”
Why should this opening speech from Nobel laureate Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming set off a frisson of unease in an Avon Theatre audience?
Consider it an early signal that the Stratford Festival is firmly on course with its splendid revival of a landmark play.
Indeed, The Homecoming is the one triumph among a trio of August openings that also include a decorative but dull revival of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, and a bungled reading of Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna.