The Hothouse

By Harold Pinter

Book Overview

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
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802136435
• ISBN13: 9780802136435
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"