Abstract
'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer. 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The Times. When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy.