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, f…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-3643-5
- EAN: 9780802136435
- Produktnummer: 9243131
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H20.7 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.2 cm 175 g
- Gewicht: 175
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