The Hothouse

<p><i>The Hothouse</i> was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958 just before commencing work on <i>The Caretaker</i>.<br><br>'<i>The Hothouse</i> is one of Pinter's best plays: one that deals with the worm-eaten corruption of bureaucracy, the secrecy of government and the disjunction between language and experience.'<br>Michael Billington.<br><br>'<i>The Hothouse</i> is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance between Kafka and Fedyeau.'<br><br>The National Theatre presented a major revival of <i>The Hothouse</i> in July 2007. <br><br>'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.'<br>Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005</p>