HOTHOUSE
WINNER Best Production and Best Design Ensemble at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023
Originally scheduled to premiere in March 2020 – this is a new play with songs and a ship's captain pulling the strings. Ruth in 1969 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. HOTHOUSE is about horny songbirds, parents, love, legacy, and wanting to change, but not knowing how.
With HOTHOUSE, MALAPROP once again make big ideas urgently human. And funny! This show is not just One More Thing to Feel Scared About. We promise. Climate breakdown is so huge that feeling bad is too small a feeling to really do it justice. So why not laugh about death? Why not do a drag cabaret about bees going extinct? Why not play some banging tunes while the ship sinks?
Come along: Laugh. (Loudly.) Panic. (Controlledly.) Think about needing to change (desperately), but not knowing how. Written by Carys D. Coburn with MALAPROP, HOTHOUSE is a new play with songs – about cruise ships, horny songbirds, parents, love, legacy, horny rabbits, Minnie Riperton, and whether things can ever get better.
Written by Carys D. Coburn with MALAPROP
Directed by Claire O’Reilly
Cast: Peter Corboy, Thommas Kane Byrne, Bláithín Mac Gabhann, Maeve O'Mahony, Ebby O'Toole Acheampong
Set & Costume Design by Molly O'Cathain
Composition, Musical Direction and Sound by Anna Clock
Lighting Design by John Gunning
Choreographer Deirdre Griffin
Assistant Director Ellen Buckley
Associate Sound Designer & Sound Engineer Eóin Murphy
Produced by Carla Rogers & Caoimhe Whelan
Costume Supervisor Mary Sheehan
Stage Manager Evie McGuinness
Assistant Stage Manager Dragana Stevanic
Production Manager Pete Jordan
Promo Photography by Pato Cassinoni with Art Direction by Molly O’Cathain