FUSION Theatre
Company opens its 2008-2009 season with the New Mexico
premiere of Harold Pinters’ award-winning
play The Homecoming on
Thursday, Septermber 4 at 8:00 p.m at The Cell Theatre.
Opening night
features
a
catered reception at 7:00 p.m. Reservations
are highly recommended.
Hot on the heels of the lauded Broadway revival,
FUSION presents Albuquerque audiences with Pinter’s
masterfully written play centering on family, power,
and revelation. After years in the States, Teddy,
accompanied by his wife Ruth, returns to the bosom
of his north London family complete with its patriarch
Max, Uncle Sam, boxing brother Joey, and the enigmatic
Lenny. Family connections and the emotional convolutions
of linked experience bring each character into confrontation
with their deepest selves.
The Homecoming arrives in Albuquerque
directly from an extremely successful revival on
Broadway. In the central role of Max, the father,
John Wylie returns to the FUSION stage after a terrific
run in Mad Hattr in the Spring of 2007. The cast
also features New Mexico professionals Bruce
Holmes,
Nick Lopez, Jacqueline Reid, Demetrio Vialpando,
and Rick
Wiles.
Its 1967 Broadway opening won The
Homecoming the
Tony Award for Best
Play; it was nominated
earlier this year for another Tony Award for "Best
Revival of a Play." In awarding him the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 2005, the Swedish Academy cited
author Harold Pinter for being "generally
regarded as the foremost representative of British
drama in
the
second
half
of the 20th century."
The Homecoming continues through
September 28th with Thursday through Saturday performances
at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. For
tickets and information call 766-9412 or click here: www.fusionabq.org/tix.htm.
Single tickets are $25 for general admission, $20
for students and seniors. Thursday performances
(excluding opening
night) feature a $10.00 student rush (with valid
I.D.) and $18 actor rush (with professional resume.)
The first Sunday 9/7 is a pay-what-you-wish performance.
Group discounts are also available. However, substantial
discounts are available when you purchase a season
package!
Free parking
is plentiful. The Cell is located at 700 1st
St. N.W., just west of Broadway and south of Lomas.
John Lahr, The New Yorker:
"The Homecoming changed
my life. Before the play, I thought words were
just vessels of
meaning; after it, I saw them as weapons of defense.
Before, I thought theatre was about the spoken;
after, I understood the eloquence of the unspoken.
The position of a chair, the length of a pause,
the choice of a gesture, I realized, could convey
volumes"
Ben Brantley, New
York Times:
"First of all, it really is that good. You
would expect it to have shrunk over the years,
the way buildings that loomed large in your childhood
seem smaller when you revisit them. But...The
Homecoming is every bit as big as its
reputation.....It’s a bit like Picasso’s
shockingly severe painting of Gertrude Stein
from 1906,
the one he predicted in time would resemble its
subject. We may not have thought we saw ourselves
in The Homecoming four decades
ago. Now it feels like a mirror.”
