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The Hothouse

The Hothouse

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Series: Pinter, Harold

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ISBN10: 0802136435
ISBN13: 9780802136435
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Feb 10 1999
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
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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