SCENOGRAPHY
THE HOTHOUSE / HAROLD PINTER
*http://issuu.com/artemis.sierra/docs/hothouse (in Greek)
09 The play script refers to relations of control and authority inside an asylum. The questionable behavior of the main characters is open to various interpretations. Also, there is an intense indefinite sense of threat as the whole system is breaking down. In this approach, this break down is seen as a general leak of the System and as the unbearable heat causes sweat inside “the hothouse�, the scenery uses perforated surfaces and metal tubes (sound of leaking water). The threat is expressed through the existance of a wall, made of many similar parts, which decreases the space as it moves forward during the scenes (diagramm on the right). In a few words, the proposed scenery consists of doors, stairs and a wall. In this way, the limits of the container cannot be defined in none of the three dimensions; horizontal motion for entrance/exit from the doors, compression of the depth because of the motion of the back wall, vertical motion at the stairs.