Homecoming | Section Summaries

Timeline of Events

• Summer evening

  Max and Lenny have a conversation full of animosity.

  Act 1, Section 1
• Soon after

  Reacting to insults, Sam reports others, not him, have had sex in the back seat of his car.

  Act 1, Section 1
• A little later

  Joey talks about his boxing training, and Max mocks and degrades him.

  Act 1, Section 1
• Late that night

  After six years of estrangement, Teddy arrives with Ruth, whom no one in the family has met.

  Act 1, Section 2
• A little later

  After some indecision, Ruth goes for a walk, and Teddy goes to bed.

  Act 1, Section 2
• Later that night

  Unable to sleep, Lenny tells Ruth violent stories when she returns from her walk.

  Act 1, Section 2
• A little later

  Ruth invites Lenny to sit on her lap and drink her water.

  Act 1, Section 2
• Early the next morning

  Not knowing who Ruth is, Max calls her a tart and wants her thrown out.

  Act 1, Section 3
• Soon after

  Max asks Ruth if she is a mother; she says she is.

  Act 1, Section 3
• That afternoon

  As others watch, Ruth and Lenny dance and kiss.

  Act 2, Section 1
• Soon after

  Joey and Ruth kiss and lie on the sofa, embracing.

  Act 2, Section 1
• That evening

  Joey and Ruth spend two hours alone upstairs but don't have sex.

  Act 2, Section 2
• A little later

  Max, Lenny, and Joey make a plan to keep Ruth with them.

  Act 2, Section 2
• A little later

  Teddy agrees with the plan and offers to return home to take care of the children.

  Act 2, Section 2
• A little later

  Ruth agrees to stay, making demands of her own, including a contract.

  Act 2, Section 2
• Soon after

  Sam reveals that MacGregor and Jessie had sex in the back seat of his car.

  Act 2, Section 2
• Immediately after

  Sam collapses on the floor as the others ignore him.

  Act 2, Section 2
• Later that evening

  Max and Joey kneel on either side of Ruth, who is seated in Max's chair, as Lenny looks on.

  Act 2, Section 2

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