Exciting play coming to Tipperary arts centre as part of Bealtaine Festival

Two exciting nights of entertainment are making their way to the Source Arts Centre, Thurles, in the coming weeks.

Originally scheduled to premiere in March 2020, Hothouse is a new play coming to the Source, with songs and a ship's captain pulling the strings.

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The show takes place at 8pm on Saturday, May 10, with tickets costing €21, or €12 for over 55s as part of the Bealtaine Festival.

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.

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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.