The Hothouse (Pinter, Harold) - Softcover

Pinter, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802136435 ISBN 13: 9780802136435

Publisher: Grove Press, 1999

Synopsis

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

About this title

Book Description

The Hothouse by Harold Pinter is, according to Michael Billington, 'one of Pinter's best plays' - no small achievement in the context of the Nobel Prize-winning Playwright's stunning and revolutionary oeuvre.

About the Author

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802136435
• ISBN 13: 9780802136435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176