Award winning theatre coming to Roscommon Arts Centre

Award winning Irish theatre collective, Malaprop, is bringing the hit stage exploration of climate breakdown, cruise ship cabaret and the legacies of bad parenting, ‘Hothouse’ to Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday, May 16th at 8.00 p.m..

This fast-paced, poignant story of love, loss, and legacy set on an Arctic cruise ship, takes you—the passenger—on a journey to bid farewell to the ice caps. Following its Off-Broadway debut (2024) where Hothouse was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick, the show is now touring the country.

Hothouse brings the audience on an odyssey that sails through an intergenerational tale complete with horny songbirds, a mad captain, and wanting to change, but not knowing how. Set on a cruise liner in the Arctic, where the ship's captain is pulling the strings, the play is performed by a cast of five. Hothouse, with its clever score, looks at the last hundred years in Ireland, and ahead to the next hundred.

Tackling climate breakdown with big ideas, there are plenty of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret musical numbers.

The play sees Ruth (in 1969) who refuses to eat sandwiches with lettuce in them. Ali in the present day goes on a cruise to say goodbye to the ice. A parent 100 years in the future tells their child it gets better, even though we're pretty sure they're lying.

Bookings at 090 662 5824 / roscommonartscentre.ie The show will also be performed at the Hawks Well, Sligo on Saturday, May 24th at 8.00 p.m, 071 916 1518 / https://www.hawkswell.com/whats-on/shows/hothouse