The Hothouse

The Hothouse

Harold Pinter

Headgate Young Company

This dark comedy by Harold Pinter tackles the corruption of power within the hierarchy of a government-run ‘rest home’. Who the patients are and what they might be suffering from, we never discover, but we begin to learn that the members of staff may be more dangerous than the people they are supposed to be helping.

Mixing wit, absurdism and classic Pinter pauses, the young company takes on this lesser-performed play.