Performance dates
04 May to 03 August 2013
Run time: 2 hrs. Performance times Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm and Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm
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Simon Russell Beale and John Simm star in a new West End production of Harold Pinter’s 1958 play The Hothouse at Trafalgar Studios, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
It’s Christmas Day in a nameless state-run mental institution where the inmates are subjected to a tirade of mindless cruelty. A maniacal and self-obsessed leader breeds a contagion of hierarchical savagery amongst his staff, who thrive on a noxious diet of delusion and deceit.
Under a veil of devilish wit and subversive humour, Pinter’s biting political commentary on the perils of unchecked power is as vital and pertinent today as when it was written in the 50s.
The cast also includes John Heffernan (Lush), Harry Melling (Lamb), Clive Rowe (Tubb), Christopher Timothy (Lobb) and Indira Varma (Miss Cutts)
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