THE HOMECOMING by Harold Pinter

I saw THE HOMECOMING of Harold Pinter. Having attended the opening night at the London Aldwych theatre on June 3 1965, I was curious to see if the play had lost its power. It has not. The excellent cast in NY City enhances the tenseness, the menace and the dark of the text.
Everyone is venal says Pinter. Everyone is rotten, even those with degrees ( doctors of philosophy), with children and who live in smart Connecticut. But, says Pinter, let's have a laugh about it anyway. It is all a big joke and we may as well shrug and laugh. Better perhaps eh to make people laugh than cry? Certainly better to make them think for themselves rather than accept some rubbish from a religion or a political tract.