1965 absurdist play by
Harold Pinter, one of his classics, detailing a
dysfunctional family: a
claustrophobic house without a
matriarch, where
men dependent on their
masculine egos become lost and turn on each other without a strong
woman around. Enter son Teddy from
America with his wife Ruth. With a woman around, things get
creepy, as Ruth joins in the
sadistic power games with the rest of the family, eventually stepping into the role of
mother and
whore for the house.
May have been the inspiration for Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child.