• Three Hotels Revisited Friday, September 02, 2005 - 6:43 pm [1]

Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle makes his living selling defective baby formula in third-world markets. A former Peace Corps volunteer and 1960s idealist, Hoyle has succumbed to the bottom line in a corrupt and nefarious business.



Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle makes his living selling defective baby formula in third-world markets. A former Peace Corps volunteer and 1960s idealist, Hoyle has succumbed to the bottom line in a corrupt and nefarious business.

Three Hotels by Jon Robin Baitz originally scheduled for production by Roundabout Theatre Arts in 1998 at the WSU Tri-Cities Campus Auditorium was performed 8 PM Saturday, March 11, 2000, at the Battelle Auditorium in Richland, WA.

Three Hotels premiered on April 6, 1993, in New York City. It was presented by the Circle Repertory Company. Directed by Joe Mantello, Ron Rifkin played the part of Kenneth Hoyle and Christine Lahti was cast in the role of Barbara Hoyle.

Kenneth Hoyle makes his living selling defective baby formula in third-world markets. A former Peace Corps volunteer and 1960s idealist, Hoyle has succumbed to the bottom line in a corrupt and nefarious business. Barbara, his wife, is about to make a speech to other corporate wives urging them to help bear their husbands' nefarious burdens in the quagmire of the third world.

Three Hotels shows us how responsibility to self, to ideals, to a family, to a community, to a country, to a planet, can quickly go awry. The play begins with irresponsibility, flows into soul-searching accountability, and finally arrives at a place of atonement.

The length of the production was approximately 60 minutes followed by post play discussion on themes of the play.