The Hothouse

The Hothouse

A production of the Harold Pinter play.

One patient is pregnant and another has been murdered. But who is responsible?

The ambitious and power-hungry Gibbs thinks he knows and so his boss, Roote, tasks his deputy with finding the culprit - and the new boy, Lamb, looks to be a likely scapegoat. But Roote is desperately losing control not just of his deputy, but also of the institution he manages, his mistress (Miss Cutts) and all sense of reality. How will the patients and the staff react to Roote's continued mismanagement?

One of Pinter's funniest and most satirical plays, The Hothouse examines the bureaucracy of a crumbling institution where patients have numbers instead of names, and where each member of staff has their own agenda.