| The Hothouse Contributor(s): Pinter, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802136435 ISBN-13: 9780802136435 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Pinter, Harold |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.52" W x 8.31" (0.43 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
