The Hothouse, Hothouse
31st August - 6th September 2024
274 Richmond Road, London
Locations., 2024
Print on 4mm cardboard
73 x 39 cm
Characters., 2024
Print on 4mm cardboard
50 x 121 cm
I wrote The Hothouse in the winter of 1958. I put aside for further deliberation and made no attempt to have it produced at the time. I then went on to write The Caretaker. In 1979 I re-read The Hothouse and decided it was worth presenting on the stage. I made a few cuts but no changes.
Harold Pinter, Hampstead Theatre production programme for The Hothouse, 24 April 1980.