'Fast-paced' theatre show chosen as New York Times Critic’s Pick comes to Limerick

A “FAST-paced, poignant story of love, loss, and legacy” theatre show is coming to Limerick as part of its nationwide tour.

MALAPROP Theatre presents an Irish Tour of their award-winning production, HOTHOUSE.

This production, set on an Arctic cruise ship, takes you, the passenger, on a journey to bid farewell to the ice caps.

Following their Off-Broadway debut in 2024 where HOTHOUSE was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick, the show is coming to Limerick’s Lime Tree Theatre on Thursday, June 5, at 7:30pm, with tickets available now.

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“HOTHOUSE brings us on an odyssey that sails through an intergenerational tale complete with songbirds, a mad captain, and wanting to change, but not knowing how,” said a spokesperson.

“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.”

The globally esteemed cast includes Peter Corboy, Fair City, Thommas Kane Byrne, Kin and Derry Girls, Bláithín MacGabhann, Dancing at Lughnasa at National Theatre London, and Maeve O’Mahony, Abbey Theatre, Collapsing Horse.

The play is directed by Claire O’Reilly, Emma, The Abbey Theatre, and written by Carys D. Coburn, Absent the Wrong, Verity Bargate Award Winner, Irish Times Theatre Award nominee for Citysong, with MALAPROP.

Formed in 2015, MALAPROP Theatre is an award-winning collective of theatre-makers based in Dublin. Their work is bold, playful, and genre-spanning.

MALAPROP has toured work to New York, France, Beijing, Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.