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The Hothouse

Harold Pinter

出版	Eyre Methuen, 1980
主題	Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	04134712099780413471208
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lzDPAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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