The Homecoming By Harold Pinter. Electrifying audiences when it was first performed in 1965, The Homecoming has quickly established itself as a modern classic. In this production for BBC Radio, Pinter himself takes on the role of Max, the head of the Hackney family to which a professor and his wife return one night from America. There, amongst the shadows of the past and the realities of the present, a compelling drama unfolds. Max, a man of seventy ...... Harold Pinter Lenny, a man in his early thirties ...... Samuel West Sam, a man of sixty-three ...... Michael Gambon Joey, a man in his middle twenties ...... James Alexandrou Teddy, a man in his middle thirties ...... Rupert Graves Ruth, a woman in her early thirties ...... Gina McKee.