Massimo Popolizio, a master of wisdom and stage craft, always looking to the tradition of the new, directs and stars in Ritorno a casa, Harold Pinter's famous masterpiece which, sixty years after its first performance, retains its power to explore distorted family dynamics, power, violence and the breakdown of relationships.

Set in a claustrophobic house on the outskirts of London, the play portrays a real “family group in an interior”, where a spiral of tension, repressed desires and power games takes shape. In this suffocating domestic environment live the father Max, his sons Lenny, a mythomaniac with alleged violent adventures, and Joey, an aspiring boxer with a fragile sensibility, together with their uncle Sam. The sudden arrival of the eldest son Teddy, a philosophy professor who emigrated to America, with his enigmatic wife Ruth, breaks the already precarious balance. The only female character, Ruth unleashes desires and conflicts, transforming her apparent fragility into a strategy of control. Accepting to prostitute herself, she uses her body as an instrument of power, subverting roles and undermining the family structure.
Massimo Popolizio tackles Harold Pinter's famous 1964 play, a fast-paced, almost cinematic masterpiece, with a radical and sharp eye. With a “dangerously” entertaining staging, he alternates black humour and emotional tension, restoring all the psychological density and eloquent silences of the text to reveal the disturbing dynamics of family and human nature.