'The Homecoming' is a return for North Coast Repertory Theatre, which had planned to produce the Tony Award-winning play in spring 2020 only to be waylaid by the COVID-19 shutdown
In the working-class London home of cantankerous old Max, his brother Sam, and Max’s two sons, Lenny and Joey, the toxic masculinity is suffocating. The oedipal intimations are rife. The physical absence of a woman is stark and disquieting.
“The Homecoming” is a return for North Coast Repertory Theatre as well, which had planned to produce the Tony Award-winning play in spring 2020 only to be waylaid by the COVID-19 shutdown. Now, Artistic Director David Ellenstein gets his chance, even directing some from the 2020 cast: Richard Baird as son Lenny, Bruce Turk as son Teddy, Justin Gordon as son Joey, and James Newcomb as Max’s brother Sam. They’re joined here by Frank Corrado as Max and Melanie Lora in her NCR debut as Ruth.
This is fertile ground for a cast as committed and well-directed as this one. Lora may have the least to say as Ruth, but she is intensity personified. Baird brings all of Lenny the pimp’s cunning deviance to the fore, hovering and moving about in finely tailored attire. Besides Gordon’s oafish physicality as would-be boxer Joey and Turk’s restrained handle on the bland academic Teddy, Corrado growls with resentment or explodes as Max the butcher .
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