The Hotel Nepenthe
Theater Review: Hotel Nepenthe — Rooms with a Comically Existential View
February 28, 2011
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Hard luck stories and ghostly characters flit in and out of the creepy yet elegant Hotel Nepenthe, an antique nest where guests are given leopard skin coats while they await their existential fates, sometimes lying in the bathtub. “For its own interests, humor should take its outings in grave company; its cheerful dress gets heightened…
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