Mother’s Ruin takes you on the journey of two estranged sisters whose lives are thrown together following the death of their mother.
Mothers Ruin was created and directed by Tara Daniels and written By David Smith and Tom Arrowsmith.
The play is set in a living room around Christmas time as the pre funeral wake is in full swing behind the scenes with their elderly relatives freezing as Alice played by Nadia Dilamy refuses to turn the heating up. The sisters are worlds apart Alice was left behind to look after her mother following several strokes and to run a busy dairy farm alone whilst Andrea played by Tara Davies escaped to find her rich man in London.
The sisters worked well together to create an atmosphere of humour and sarcasm, Andrea is self-centred and boasts to Alice about her very privileged life style and her successes as a writer whereas Alice is grounded and hard working.
Some great lines and acting during the first half of the play that was witty and very well written, both actresses delivered their lines perfectly. 
Robin played by Tom Arrowsmith was an undertaker helping to conduct the mother’s funeral, Robin had some great scenes and portrayed the role excellently my favourite scene was Robin trying to carry a coffin lid that had been decorated in tinsel and Christmas attire by Alice as a final joke for her mum’s coffin.
Following the funeral the scenes get more intense as the girl start to drink Gin “let the party begin and drink some Gin” the Gin helped them loosen their lips and some fabulous conversation followed. Fantastic scene and well written lines around Alice’s fiancé Miles who she met on a dating site for Single Farmers, having never met miles apart from a video link on their mobiles got engaged in 6months with Alice in the UK and Miles in New Zealand or as Andrea described, “you silly girl he will be from Warrington”. This scene was delivered perfectly and Andrea’s one liner’s had you chuckling in your chair.
The end turns sad where the girl reveal their real lives and their internal trauma’s some heart wrenching moments when Alice confronts Andrea who had her mother re mortgage the farm three time to the value of sixty thousand pounds leaving their mother unable to repay the payments and causing the bank to start repossession orders. The final scenes where captivating and extremely intense the emotion in the room was palpable.
A fantastic well written play that I would highly recommend where the Northern talent shone through to produce a display of pure excellence, well done all involved.
Reviewer: Katie Leicester
Reviewed: 26th November 2015
