What happens when an institution prided on its sense of order starts unraveling from its very top? Hidden in the drawers of his desk for 22 years, The Hothouse is Harold Pinter's most obscure full-length play. Providing a plethora of opportunities for sound, this piece calls for such obscure items as the whispers of mental patients, a working period microphone pulled from a cake, a sound-proof room, and an element described only as a "piercing highpitched buzz-hum."