The Hot House

In the wake of the uproar of testimonies emerging from Mount Carmel Hospital’s cracks, Teatru Malta have chosen the Young Director’s programme as the stage for one of Pinter’s most curious pieces. The Hot House is immediately identifiable as one of Pinter’s most complex and intriguing works, set in a state-run sanatorium where the so-called “patients” are actual political dissidents receiving various excruciating corrective treatments. Directed by up-and-coming director André Agius and staged at Mount Carmel’s very own theatre, The Hothouse will focus on the casual inhumanity and corruption that festers deep within the bureaucratic pediments of institutional authority.

“In the last year, there have been many testimonies of stories that are taking place in the corridors of local hospitals. We chose this controversial work by Pinter also to instigate a discussion about the subject.”