This is the second-last weekend for Harold Pinter’s “The Hothouse,” directed by James Boland.
It’s an unsettling comedy about dysfunctional bureaucracy meted out by deranged characters running an asylum. And it involves a lot of whiskey.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel calls it “wickedly funny and disturbingly creepy at the same time.”
ThirdCoast Digest says it’s “captivating from the moment the first flickering fluorescent snaps on.“
The Shepherd Express calls Tim Palecek, as Gibbs, “electrifying” and says Rob Maass, as Lush “renders a characteristically dark and cunning performance.”
Three critics can’t all be wrong.
Check it out: 7:30 p.m., Nov. 10, 15, 16 and 17.
“The Hothouse” is presented by Milwaukee’s Pink Banana Theatre Company in the Arcade Theatre, in the bowels of the Shops at Grand Avenue, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. (Follow the signs to the lower level.)
Tickets are $18 at the door, $15 in advance.