Doncaster HotHouse

Welcome to HotHouse 2010 a four-week feast of the very best comedy, theatre, dance and music to entertain and excite you. We’ve got a cracking line up this March featuring everything from a surreal ballon tamer, award-winning comedy and dance, some cracking theatre and an engaging selection of folk, classical, blues and world music. We hope that you’re as excited as we are.

Make sure you visit us on a regular basis and keep up to date with the latest announcements about guest performances and special offers.

To download a PDF of the programme click here.

Sean Hughes: What I Meant to Say Was…

Welcome to the Hot House Festival Doncaster

The youngest comic ever to win the Perrier award – for his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 1990 – Sean Hughes is back with a brand new show, bursting at the seams with the darkly brilliant, self-deprecating barbed wit that has kept him at the top of his game ever since. The star of The Last Detective, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Sean’s Show whose dark, explosive style and quick-fire audience banter have made him a household name.
Saturday 13 March, 8pm £16 / £14 Conc. (OVER 12s ONLY)
Online booking at: www.doncastercivic.co.uk

Me & Me Dad

Written by Nick Lane
Hull Truck Theatre Company

When Andy Green’s mum dies, Andy does the decent thing – he takes a month off work and moves back home with his dad to teach him how to cook. Fighting memories – and occasionally each other – and risking the sanity of friends and neighbours, not to mention Andy’s new girlfriend, the pair boil pans, set grills on fire and worse in an attempt to prevent a diet of pickled beetroot and jam sandwiches. Can their relationship survive? Or is this one kitchen nightmare even Gordon Ramsay couldn’t fix?

MONDAY 8 TO WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH, 7.30PM
£12 / £10 CONC / £5 UNDER 18 (OVER 12s ONLY)

Part of the Spring Stage Series in partnership with the Civic Theatre. Buy a ticket for any 2 or more of the performances in our Spring Stage Series in either brochure and get £2 off each full price ticket purchased.

January 18th, 2010 | Posted in Theatre

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The Blues Band

featuring Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Rob Townsend, Gary Fletcher and Tom McGuiness

Arguably the most successful blues outfit in Britain today, the Blues Band are celebrating 30 years of playing together. Their fabulous musicianship, close personal understanding and heartfelt pleasure and passion in performing an extensive mix of Rhythm & Blues and Roots music to delight audiences world-wide.

The powerful and emotional lead vocals from Paul Jones and Dave Kelly are the ‘icing’ on an evening of foot-tapping blues music. Their extensive canon of recorded material includes a large catalogue of original songs as well as their own interpretations of songs from the genre’s finest – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Sleepy John Estes.

You won’t leave a Blues Band concert with ‘the blues’. Don’t miss it!

Tuesday 16 March, 8pm
All tickets £20

January 18th, 2010 | Posted in Music

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Sarah Jane Morris – Where it Hurts

In association with Lakin McCarthy Entertainment

A first for Doncaster as we welcome diva Sarah Jane Morris with Dominic Miller, Sting’s guitar maestro, to HotHouse. ‘Where It Hurts’ is a brand new collection of original and haunting songs penned by Sarah Jane and her musical collaborators.

The former co-lead singer of The Communards, whose ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ was a No 1 worldwide smash hit, bares her soul as she takes on the big social and political issues in her life. In this highly autobiographical show, she describes her work as “about many things, from marriage and divorce, to religion and love and fear.”

Her mesmeric live performance and singer-songwriter talents frequently find her compared with Janis Joplin, Nina Simone or Tom Waits. Don’t miss it!

Wednesday 17 March, 8pm
£14 / £12 Conc. / £5 Under 18 (OVER 12s ONLY)

January 18th, 2010 | Posted in Music