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The Hothouse
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The Hothouse

Harold Pinter
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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

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Avalon Travel Publishing
Country
United States
Date
19 May 1999
Pages
176
ISBN
9780802136435

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

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Avalon Travel Publishing
Country
United States
Date
19 May 1999
Pages
176
ISBN
9780802136435

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