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
- Author
- Harold Pinter
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780802136435
- Genres
- plays, drama, literature, theatre, classics, contemporary
- Release date
- 1999
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