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The Hothouse

A black comedy set in a government-run mental institution, The Hothouse revolves around a sinister murder plot hatched against a backdrop of corruption, sexual favors, and hopeless bureaucratic ineptitude. Beneath the surface comedy there are frightening implications concerning a bureaucracy ostensibly dedicated to humanitarian concerns, but where people are referred to by numbers and forgotten as easily as troublesome figures on a balance sheet. Written in 1958, The Hothouse was first performed at London's Hampstead Theatre in April 1980, in a production directed by Pinter himself. "A blistering funny play... Hothouse is wild, impudent, fiercely funny."-Jack Kroll, Newsweek

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 176
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780802136435
  • Genres
  • plays, drama, literature, theatre, classics, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 1999